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“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: discipline, self-mastery, will-power

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“We should every night call ourselves to an account;
What infirmity have I mastered today?
What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: self-mastery

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“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, self-mastery

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“The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal

tags: awareness, compassion, consciousness, enlightenment, fear, love, mastery, power, self-awareness, self-mastery, service, truth

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“Living the good life as created beings depends on living within the limits and according to the truths of the human condition. Purity of heart and the capacity to channel desires toward personal self-mastery in holiness are part of the high calling of the Christian life. These remain necessities, despite the promises of a false humanism that claims that human nature has neither limits nor boundaries, being infinitely plastic and malleable -- a vain and counterproductive attempt to liberate humans from guilt.”
― George Cardinal Pell, God and Caesar: Selected Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society