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  • #154
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #155
    Walt Disney Company
    “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
    Walt Disney

  • #156
    Roy T. Bennett
    “It's never too late to change your life for the better. You don't have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #157
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #158
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #159
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.”
    Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

  • #160
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #161
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “The last of the human freedoms: to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or not you become the plaything to circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity...”
    Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning

  • #162
    Viktor E. Frankl
    “A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.”
    Victor Frankl

  • #163
    Ernest Hemingway
    “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #164
    Epictetus
    “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”
    Epictetus

  • #165
    Epictetus
    “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
    Epictetus

  • #166
    Epictetus
    “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
    Epictetus

  • #167
    Epictetus
    “Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

  • #168
    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    Epictetus

  • #169
    Epictetus
    “It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
    Epictetus

  • #170
    Epictetus
    “First say to yourself what you would be;
    and then do what you have to do.”
    Epictetus

  • #171
    Epictetus
    “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
    Epictetus

  • #172
    Epictetus
    “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
    Epictetus

  • #173
    Epictetus
    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    Epictetus

  • #174
    Epictetus
    “Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.”
    Epictetus

  • #175
    Epictetus
    “You become what you give your attention to.”
    Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness



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