However brilliant an action may be, it should not be accounted great when it is not the result of a great purpose.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

All that you are is the result of what you have thought. It is founded on your thoughts. It is made up of your thoughts.

Swami Sivananda

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

We are franker towards others than towards ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there are nine rabbits on the ground, if you want to catch one, just focus on one.

He only moves toward the perfection of his art whose criticism surpasses his achievement.

Leonardo da Vinci

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