Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

We will open a book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.

A veces debes ir a la guerra contigo mismo para arreglarte.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty. I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Theodore Roosevelt

To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.

Anyone who enjoys inner peace is no more broken by failure than he is inflated by success.

Matthieu Ricard

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