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Someone else can put a thought in your head. But an insight is something you have to earn on your own.
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As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.
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Fortune will play her hand. And when she stands between us and flourishing, all we can do is live our best life. One
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Courage overcomes, but does not replace, fear. Joy overcomes, but does not replace, pain.
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To work through pain is not to make it disappear, but to make it mean something different for us - to turn it into wisdom.
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Yet the basic fact remains: we live in a world marked by violence, and if we want to protect others, we sometimes have to be willing to fight.
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I thought buying at the local market would be an excellent way to build positive relationships with the local villagers.
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If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.
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Some people are made stronger by suffering. Others are defeated. The difference is resilience.
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You don't have to know what perfect looks like, but you do have to know what better looks like.
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When people have a shared commitment, differences and disagreements don't disappear, but they can be seen in a new light.
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If you respected someone, then you had to ask something of them.
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Are you going to let what someone might say prevent you from doing what you must do?
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We should be, in part, beginners for our entire lives. Beginning anew refreshes the habit of learning.
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What usually matters in your life is not the magical moment, but the quality of your daily practice.
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If you're growing, you're likely failing. If you're not failing, you're likely not growing.
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Please, dear Lord, don't let me f*** up. - ALAN SHEPARD, first American in space, seconds before liftoff
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The point is to read in a way that leads to better thinking, and to think in a way that leads to better living.
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Seneca: Fate guides the willing but drags the unwilling.
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Know this: anyone who does anything worthy, anything noble, anything meaningful, will have critics.
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You can put off the life you want to live until you wake up to find that it's too late.
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We grow when we recover from the right pain in the right way.
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To begin where you are, you have to be where you are. This
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For many people in the Western world, freedom is limited not so much by what others do to us, but by what we cannot do for ourselves. Walker,
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The excellent fail more often than the mediocre.
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storytelling is not just a way to remember what happened; it's a way to understand what happened.
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Would you love people the same if they could never die?
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Just as any work can be made into a miserable bore, any vocation can be a source of joy
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Arrogance is the armor worn by hollow men,
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Resilience is cultivated not so that we can perform well in a single instance, but so that we can live a full and flourishing life.
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Beware the person who seeks to lead and has not suffered, who claims responsibility on the grounds of a spotless record.
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Often, your mentors are already in your life; you just haven't yet found a way to learn from them.
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As a leader, you have to have the humility to understand that your power is limited.
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Energy, curiosity, and wonder are not products of age. They're byproducts of what we do.
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The new has no special claim on the true.
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Death is like the sun. It infuses every part of our lives, but it doesn't make sense to stare at it.
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We learn who we are and where we come from, what is right and what is wrong, from hearing and telling stories - something
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The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.
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The work of reflection is something you have to do for yourself. No one else can make you wise.
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It's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.
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Magnanimity" means "greatness of soul,
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Great calamity met with great spirit can create great strength.
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Hall, you should have died. Do pushups for being alive." Greg Hall knocked out twenty happy pushups and yelled, "Hooyah for being alive.
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Warriors are warriors not because of their strengh, but because of their ability strengh to good purpose
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So let's accept what must be accepted, without letting our acceptance justify inaction. Don't
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The best experts and the best mentors have flexible minds.
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Savor the flashes of wonder that light your life,
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To move through pain to wisdom, through fear to courage, through suffering to strength, requires resilience.
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I had been given the greatest gift an education could provide: I had a better idea of what it meant to live a good life
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Don't do this for me - do this with me. A leader earns devotion by showing devotion.
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I can point you in a certain direction, maybe draw you a map and give you some ideas. I can't carry you where you need to go.
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Clarity of purpose creates perspective.
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In the midst of hardship and fear, suffering and difficulty, the person who's built the habit of focus harnesses tremendous power.
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Five variables go into training or practice of any kind: frequency, intensity, duration, recovery, and reflection.
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Wise people could sometimes be dumb.
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Practice builds habits. Our habits are our character. When it comes to virtue, practice makes a very great difference - or rather, all the difference.
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Accept that you are imperfect and always will be. Your quest is not to perfect yourself, but to better your imperfect self.
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Insights come through practice. When we work at something, we come to see it differently.
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Excuses are incompatible with excellence. The
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Humility leads to an open mind and a forgiving heart.
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