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“The greatest sin is to think yourself weak”
― Vivekananda

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you,
none can make you spiritual.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
― Vivekananda

“Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn’t think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?"

Why not use the same common sense when fishing for people?”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”
― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sanskrit Terms

“Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Nobody kicks a dead dog”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry

“Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Whores are natural”
― Charles Bukowski

“A barber lathers a man before he shaves him.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“It seemed better to delay thinking.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Today is the tommorrow you worried about yesterday.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.”
― Dale Carnegie

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”
― Charles Bukowski

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. ”
― Charles Bukowski

“confusion is the main cause of worry”
― Dale Carnegie

“Don't try.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

“Monotony reveals our limitations.”
― Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

“Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for them.”
― Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking

“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office