Be tolerant with others and stick with yourself.
- Topic: Discipline, Power, Self
- Location: Oceanside, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
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No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
