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Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle.
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Beginning Clear Freedom Happiness Principle Understand
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Attention Character Giving Inspirational Ourselves
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
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Impossible Learning Man Thinking
It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
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Body Goodness Heart Inspirational Look Soul
Only the educated are free.
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Education Freedom One Liner
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
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Believe Beyond Control Freedom Happiness Win
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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Believe Healing One Liner Recover Ruin
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anchor Hope Inspirational Life Ride Ship
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
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Going Man Philosophy Wisdom World
It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance.
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Abundance Die Fear Hunger Live Trouble
In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.
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Goals Influence Lie Life Please Purpose
Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.
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Behaviour Circumstance Expectation People Understand Wisdom
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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Attitude Concern Human Nature People Thinking
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don’t be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
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Concern Creation Giving Motivational Watch Work
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
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Aspire Extraordinary Inspirational Time Vague Wise

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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