“Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.”
― The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
― The Heart of Leadership: Becoming a Leader People Want to Follow
“We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”
― Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
― Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything
“I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― A Game of Thrones
― A Game of Thrones
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