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Learning to use anger is no easy task. Yet the alternative—letting anger use us—makes us prisoners of our own minds.
— Mark Epstein
The universe is always speaking to us ... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
— Nancy Thayer
Before you can learn a new way of doing things, you have to unlearn the old way. ... So beginnings depend on endings.
— Rick Maurer
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life.
— Jill Bolte Taylor
The greatest boundaries that we face in our lives are very often the ones we ourselves create in our minds.
— Ellyn Spragins
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
— Chuck Palahniuk
There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.
— Amy Chua
There’s nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn’t.
— Amy Chua
It’s what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us.
— Beth Hofman
The brick walls are there for a reason. They're not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.
— Randy Pausch
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