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“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one”
― Bruce Lee

tags: advice-for-daily-living, prayer

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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
― Bruce Lee

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“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: be-yourself

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#4

“Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.”
― Bruce Lee

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#5

“As you think, so shall you become.”
― Bruce Lee

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#6

“Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

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“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

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#8

“The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.”
― Csikszentmihaly

tags: flow, p70

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#9

“It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it’s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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#10

“We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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#11

“Ladies, when you write a poem for Feminism because that is what we sometimes do, remember that it's never about them. It's only about you.”
― Danielle Valenilla, Fun Dip & Other Misfortunes

tags: feminism, feminist-poetry, identity, ownership

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#12

“Every true leader is in the business of God. The good news is that God’s business does not yield loses. Most leaders fail because they claim to be in a business whose owner they never know!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

tags: business, fail, failure, food-for-thought, god, god-s-business, god-s-work, good, good-news, israelmore-ayivor, jehovah, lead, lead-people, leader, leaders, leadership, lose, loses, news, owner, ownership, profit, profit-and-loss, win, work

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#13

“To own beauty is the first lie of it.”
― Chris Campanioni, In Conversation

tags: appearance, appearances, beauty, beauty-in-life, beauty-in-literature, lies, ownership

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#14

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: accountability, anxiety, barriers, belief-systems, beliefs, beliefs-in-yourself, blinded, blindsighted, boundaries, brainwashed, bravery, breaking-free, controlled, direction, diversity, expectations, false-beliefs, fear, fearful, fearless, fears, freedom, growing, growth, hurts, idealist, introspection, knowing-what-you-want, learning, listening, ocd, open-minded, open-minded-life, openness, ownership, pain, past, personal-growth, perspective, perspectives-on-life, prisoners, road-blocks, rules, self-discovery, self-esteem-101, self-evaluation, self-imposed-pain, staying-positive, stayingpositiveu-com, stereotypes, taking-control, unrealistic-expectations, victomization, walls, wisdom

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#15

“God is not against you owning things, but he is against the things owning you.”
― Orrin Woodward

tags: god-s-will, idolatry, materialism, ownership

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#16

“It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love ... You can't own a human being.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

tags: freedom, jealousy, love, ownership

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#17

“If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you’re praying someone else will do for you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: accountable, bravery, choices, courage, determination, fearless, love, ownership, pray, prayer, responsibility, stewardship, strength

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#18

“Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

tags: anarchism, ownership, sharing

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#19

“Ownership breeds slavery: with every single thing that you acquire, comes a new worry of not losing that thing.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: consumerism, loss, materialism, ownership, slavery

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#20

“What we possess owns us, and we absolutely own nothing.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

tags: ownership, posessions, quotes-to-live-by

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#21

“Losing is only happened in a mind that enslaved by idea of ownership.”
― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

tags: losing, ownership

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#22

“I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

tags: learning, lessons, love, patience, waiting

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#23

“The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

tags: happiness, lessons, nature, worship

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#24

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#25

“One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

tags: anti-christian, atheism, bible, religion

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#26

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

tags: books, companionship, friends, friendship, god, reading, religion

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#27

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

tags: god, inspirational, religion

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#28

“Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!”
― Joel Osteen

tags: christianity, god, religion, religious, trust

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#29

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

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#30

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: faith, future, god, trust

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