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Theodore Roosevelt
“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
Theodore Roosevelt

Brent Weeks
“The master who fears the choices his people will make enough to take those choices away isn't worth serving.”
Brent Weeks, The Blinding Knife

Epictetus
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. Thus death is nothing terrible, else it would have appeared so to Socrates. But the terror consists in our notion of death, that it is terrible. When, therefore, we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved let us never impute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own views. It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortunes; of one entering upon instruction, to reproach himself; and of one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others or himself.”
Epictetus Epictetus, The Enchiridion of Epictetus

C.G. Jung
“Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.”
C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

Epictetus
“Man is disturbed not by things, but by the views he takes of them.”
Epictetus

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