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You are everything – Krishnamurti

“You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

You yourself have to be the master and the pupil. The moment you acknowledge another as a master and yourself as a pupil, you are denying truth. There is no master, no pupil, in the search for truth.

You must understand it, go into it, examine it, give your heart and your mind, with everything that you have, to find out a way of living differently. That depends on you, and not on someone else, because in this there is no teacher, no pupil; there is no leader; there is no guru; there is no Master, no Saviour. You yourself are the teacher and the pupil; you are the Master; you are the guru; you are the leader; you are everything.”

– Krishnamurti

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Folly made young people – Rohinton Mistry

‎”What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.”

– Rohinton Mistry

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The most effective way to do it – Amelia Earhart

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

– Amelia Earhart

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Fail better – Samuel Beckett

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

– Samuel Beckett

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Success – George Bernard Shaw

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

– George Bernard Shaw

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Success – Maya Angelou

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it”

– Maya Angelou

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Wit – Dorothy Parker

“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

– Dorothy Parker

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Death – Virgil

“Death twitches my ear. “Live” he says, “For I am coming.”

– Virgil

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No – Gavin DeBecker

‘No’ is a complete sentence.
– Gavin DeBecker

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Circumstance – Hunter S. Thompson

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”

– Hunter S. Thompson

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Answer – H L Mencken

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”

– H L Mencken

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Pain and suffering – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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Change & Worry – Unknown

“If you can change it, there is no need to worry.
If you can’t change it, there is no point to worry.”

– Unknown

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Close some doors – Paulo Coelho

“Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere”

– Paulo Coelho

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Friends – Euripides

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

– Euripides