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The best place to get help is from yourself.

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The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
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Difficult Motivational Pilot Reputation Skill Storm
When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.
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Acceptance Attitude Happen Ignorance Power
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
Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them.
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Attitude Inspirational Men Thinking Trouble
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
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Angry Fault Forget Man Offend Study Yourself
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
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
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Handle Happen Inspirational Matter Reaction
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
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Content Fools Improvement Stupid Want
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Freedom Himself Inspirational Master One Liner
To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.
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Deed Inspirational Life Live Virtue
Do not try to seem wise to others.
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Inspirational Life One Liner Try 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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Attention Belong Business Concern Focus True
We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.
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Event Judgement Life Live Suffering
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Believe Motivational Yourself
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
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Freedom Inspirational Let Go Life Live Sorrow
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

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