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    Eckhart Tolle
    “Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: surrender
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    C. JoyBell C.
    “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
    ― C. JoyBell C.
    tags: belief-in-self, believe-in-yourself, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, life, living, self-awareness, self-belief, self-knowledge, self-love
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
    tags: anxiety, dizziness, fear, freedom, life
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    Lemony Snicket
    “To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book
    tags: anxiety, hope
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    Amit Ray
    “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.”
    ― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
    tags: anxiety, awareness, awareness-quotes, breath, breathing, breathing-in-awareness, depression, depression-quotes, live-in-the-moment, living-in-the-moment, living-in-the-present, living-in-the-present-moment, living-life-to-the-fullest, meditation, meditations-quotes, mindfulness, peace, present-moment, relaxation, self-awareness, stress, stress-management, stress-relief, tension
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    David Foster Wallace
    “It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.”
    ― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
    tags: ads, advertising, anxiety
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    Epictetus
    “Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
    ― Epictetus
    tags: anxiety, mankind
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    Marcus Aurelius
    “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
    ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
    tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength
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  • #9
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, leadership, self-control
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    Jane Austen
    “I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
    ― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
    tags: self-control, serenity
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    Thucydides
    “Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: courage, discipline, self-control, self-respect
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  • #12
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin
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    Lao Tzu
    “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: self-control
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    Paulo Coelho
    “If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Aleph
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: excess, self-control, virtue
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    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion...”
    ― William Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
    tags: self-control
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    Babe Ruth
    “It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
    ― George Herman Ruth
    tags: hard-work, inspiration, teamwork
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    Orson Scott Card
    “If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”
    ― Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
    tags: hard-work, inaction, just-do-it, success, team
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    Steve Maraboli
    “Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
    tags: action, authenticity, gratitude, hard-work, inspirational, life, life-lessons, motivational, success
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    Haruki Murakami
    “People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—and for me, for writing as well. I believe many runners would agree.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: life, meaning, running
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: change, fear-of-change
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    Maria Popova
    “At watershed moments of upheaval and transformation, we anticipate with terror the absence of the familiar parts of life and of ourselves that are being washed away by the current of change. But we fail to envision the unfamiliar gladness and gratifications the new tide would bring, the unfathomed presences, for our imaginations are bounded by our experience. The unknown awakens in us a reptilian dread that plays out with the same ferocity on scales personal, societal, and civilizational, whether triggered by a new life-chapter or a new political regime or a new world order.”
    ― Maria Popova, Figuring
    tags: change, fear-of-change, transformation
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    Aysha Taryam
    “It is fear that reinforces the walls we build, people are afraid to be swayed from their convictions, afraid to question their moral instincts and expose themselves to ideas that may challenge the fabric of their entire existence, but what are we if we are not seeking to better ourselves?”
    ― Aysha Taryam
    tags: betterment, change, debate, fear, fear-of-change, ideologies, questioning
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    Dragos Bratasanu
    “In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.”
    ― Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
    tags: change, change-your-life, emotions, fear-of-change, future, inspirational, life-lessons, suffering, wisdom
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