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“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
― Confucius

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

“You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
― Sam Harris, Free Will

“The older we get the more we seem to think that everything was better in the past.”
― Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

“Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.”
― C.G. Jung

“If You Meet The Buddha On The Road, Kill Him”
― Linji

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson