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Lao Tzu
“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”
Lao Tzu

Thich Nhat Hanh
“the art of happiness is also the art of suffering well.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Thich Nhat Hanh
“Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.”
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

Seneca
“If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

Lao Tzu
“Love is a decision - not an emotion!”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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