Raise your words, not voice. It is rain which grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
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Raise your words, not voice. It is rain which grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
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For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
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Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walker
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Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.
Ward
But please do not forget to sleep, loaf and play 😉
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Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.
Hafiz
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You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.
Ben Horowitz
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If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?
Shantideva
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Kindness is a language which the deaf and the blind can read.
Mark Twain
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Well this seems oddly unmotivating does it? But wait!
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Eckhart Tolle
I know that quoting Tolle always causes a bit of an argument or at least controversy, but he is right about this (at least).
Situations alone are just facts. What you make out of it is the only variable. You chose how your inner world looks like. Some people tend to see problems and nuisances wherever they look, others see opportunities and experiences.
Look out for the latter!
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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
Mahatma Gandhi
Think about yourself as the person you would like to be. Sooner or later the differences between those two persons will decrease gradually and eventually they will vanish.
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