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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
"If you are not willing to be a fool, you can't become a master."
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"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."
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"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."
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"You should be careful, therefore, to live your life fully, and marriage and children and grandchildren, and all the trouble and heartbreak that accompanies all of that, is much of what life has to offer. Miss it at your great peril."
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"Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness."
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"It is much better to make friends with what you do not know than with what you do know, as there is an infinite supply of the former but a finite stock of the latter."
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"What is the moral of the story? Make yourself colorful, stand out, and the lions will take you down. And the lions are always there."
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"The purpose of life, as far as I can tell... Is to find a mode of being that's so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant."
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"I don't think that you have any insight whatsoever into your capacity for good until you have some well-developed insight into your capacity for evil."
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"We outsource the problem of sanity. People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them."
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"If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don't need to worry about the future."
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"We are all human. That means there is something about our experience that is the same. Otherwise, we would not all be human."
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"There is no evidence that the importance of friendship declines in any manner with age."
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"It may well be, therefore, that the true meaning of life is not to be found in what is objective, but in what is subjective (but still universal)."
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"And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of."
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"When you are tightly boxed in or cornered -all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions-all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned."
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"I will trust you-I will extend my hand to you-despite the risk of betrayal, because it is possible, through trust, to bring out the best in you, and perhaps in me."
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