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“Love is the total commitment to the full development of the potential of the other.”

W. Scott Peck

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“First, decide exactly what it is you want. Most people never do that. Second, determine the price you’re going to have to pay to get it, and then resolve to pay that price.”

H. L. Hunt

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“You can earn a university degree in our society... and never once receive an hour’s worth of instruction on goal setting, even though goal setting is more important to long-term happiness than any other single subject you could ever learn.”

Brian Tracy

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“Whenever you find great achievement, you find an individual who is absolutely clear about what he or she wants to do, and who is willing to do whatever it takes, for however long it takes, to achieve it.”

Brian Tracy

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“Here is a test for you: For one day, twenty-four hours, see if you can think and talk about only the things you want. Resolve to keep your conversation free of all negativity, doubt, fear, or criticism. Discipline yourself to speak cheerfully and optimistically about each person and each situation in the world around you.”

Brian Tracy

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“A successful life is merely a series of successful days, hours and minutes, minutes during which you think about your goals and your desires, about health and happiness and prosperity, and refuse to dwell on anything that you do not want to see manifested around you.”

Brian Tracy

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“The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.”

Anthony de Mello

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“Understand your attachments and they will vanish—the consequence is freedom. Love and freedom and happiness are not things that you can cultivate and produce. You cannot even know what they are. All you can do is observe their opposites and, through your observation, cause these opposites to die.”

Anthony de Mello

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“Hardly anyone has been told the following truth: In order to be genuinely happy there is one and only one thing you need to do: get deprogrammed, get rid of those attachments.”

Anthony de Mello

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“If you wish to be fully alive you must develop a sense of perspective. Life is infinitely greater than this trifle you have given power to upset you.”

Anthony de Mello

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“The thing that is blind is not love but attachment. An attachment is the state of clinging that comes from the false belief that something or someone is necessary for your happiness.”

Anthony de Mello

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“If you cannot serve your wife or husband or child or parent—how are you going to serve society?”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Don’t worry if those around you aren’t doing their best. Just worry about how you can make yourself worthy. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“When you realize you’re irritated, half-smile at once. Inhale and exhale quietly, maintaining the half smile for three breaths.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“The meditation on interdependence is to help one penetrate reality in order to be one with it, not to become caught up in philosophical opinion or meditation methods. It isn’t to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn’t the moon itself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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“In truth, however, one should always ask oneself, ‘What would happen if everyone did what I am doing?’”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Indeed, in my opinion, anguish is the total absence of justification accompanied, at the same time, by responsibility toward all.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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“The only way I can measure the strength of this affection is precisely by performing an action that confirms and defines it.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Therefore, in seeking me out, he knew what my answer would be, and there was only one answer I could give him: ‘You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can tell you what you ought to do; there are no signs in this world.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

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