The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

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Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Thomas Jefferson

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S. Truman

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

It is simply because changing anybody's habits is a true struggle in the first place, even if it is something that they want to do. When you try to do something that you are not passionate about, this makes the process almost impossible to accomplish.

Michael Lombardi

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words 'Be still'. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

Ramana Maharshi

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

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