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wise learning growth
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
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I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.
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What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.
appear known learned life secret teaching
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
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If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...
becomes change difficult suffer
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.
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Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
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Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.
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We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.
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When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''
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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.
caused fear form sustained worry
Worry: a sustained form of fear caused by indecision.
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Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.