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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I’m not perfect -and I don’t live to be- but before you start pointing fingers… make sure you hands are clean!

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

What you become directly influences what you get.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

Build what you want to see in the world.

See God in every person, place, and thing, and all will be well in your world.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry

Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.