I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally. Instead, find out what's needed and fix it. If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally. Find another tie or find another girlfriend.

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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

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Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

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There's plenty of intelligence in the world, but the courage to do things differently is in short supply.

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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.

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If your head tells you one thing, and your heart tells you another, before you do anything, you should first decide whether you have a better head or a better heart.

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Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with.

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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

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Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.

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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

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You can't be wise without being intelligent, but you certainly can be intelligent without being wise.

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At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.

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Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

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Ultimately, our future is like a mirror. Whenever we face it, it always reflects what we left behind.

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The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

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You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.

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Loving behavior contributes to the group at the expense of the individual. Competition contributes to the survival of the individual at the expense of the group. In the garden of life, some people are more like flowers, and other people are more like weeds.

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How can we live in freedom and maintain that we are entitled to anything that we can't get without the labor of others? Remember, if we are entitled to the labor of others, that makes slaves of those others.

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Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

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Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

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Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?

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