Do not be lured by the need to be liked: better to be respected, even feared.

Robert Greene

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Albert Schweitzer

Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.

Truth is not something that you can search outside, it is something that needs to be explored within. Truth descends when you are in the state of no-mind. Being meditative leads into the state of no-mind.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Most people think that intelligence is about brain, where really it's about focus. Genius is just attention to a subject until it becomes specific.

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