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“Anybody can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

tags: anger

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#2

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source

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#3

“On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days, on other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”
― Douglas MacArthur

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#4

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#5

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

tags: education, ethics

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#6

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
― Aristotle

tags: happiness

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#7

“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

tags: attitude, choice, giving, happiness, inspirational, kindness, life-and-living, life-lessons, motivational, positive-affirmation

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#8

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus

tags: contentment, happiness, money, wealth

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#9

“Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
― Epictetus

tags: philosophers, philosophy

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#10

“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

tags: be-honest, grow, learn-to-think, understand-what-you-read

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#11

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: happiness

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#12

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth

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#13

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: integrity, morality

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#14

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life, seize-the-day

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#15

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: conduct-of-life, injury, revenge

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#16

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: perseverance, suicide, survival

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#17

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Seneca

tags: inspirational

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#18

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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#19

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
― Seneca

tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful

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#20

“The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. I still give The One Minute Manager to every person I promote. It’s an amazing resource, in particular on how to give feedback. My biggest takeaways were: Criticize the behavior, not the person. Praise in public; criticize in private. Praise with emotion, criticize without emotion.”
― Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

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#21

“Black and white” means you’re doing your job with competence and efficiency; “color” means you make people feel great about the job you’re doing for them. Getting the right plate to the right person at the right table is service. But genuinely engaging with the person you’re serving, so you can make an authentic connection—that’s hospitality.”
― Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

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#22

“What criticism offers you, then, is an invitation to have your perspective challenged—or at least to grow by truly considering it. You might stick with a choice you’ve been criticized for or end up somewhere completely different. The endgame isn’t the point as much as the process: you grow when you engage with another perspective and decide to decide again.”
― Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

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#23

“dining restaurant Canlis, which The New York Times later called “Seattle’s fanciest, finest restaurant for more than 60 years.” His dad, Chris Canlis, ran the restaurant for thirty years before eventually turning it over to Brian and his brother Mark. (And if you want a case study of how a business can build loyalty and strengthen community in the midst of a restaurant-devastating global pandemic, check out Canlis’s Instagram account for 2020.)”
― Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

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#24

“Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: backyard, distant, familiar, foreign, home, hospitality, house, residence, travel, traveler, trip, visit, visitor, wanderer

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#25

“This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

tags: advancement, doctrine, hospitality, nature, rights

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#26

“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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#27

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
― Sigmund Freud

tags: inspirational-quotes

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#28

“An intelligent person hires people who are more intelligent than he is.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

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#29

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

tags: humanity, inspirational, mistakes, risk, school

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#30

“The main management skills needed for success are: 1) Management of cash flow, 2) Management of systems, and 3) Management of people. And the most important specialized skills are sales and marketing. Communication skills such as writing, speaking, and negotiating are crucial to a life of success. These are skills Robert works on constantly, attending courses or buying educational resources to expand his knowledge. The skills of selling and marketing are difficult for most people, primarily due to their fear of rejection. The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

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