The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~Indian Proverb
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! ~William Makepeace Thackeray
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I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair. ~Viktor E. Frankl
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Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters. ~African Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as lamb. ~Roman Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it. ~Stephen King
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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No pain, no gain; nothing ventured, nothing gained. ~Chinese Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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We cannot come to honour under coverlet. ~George Herbert
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth. ~Ted Williams
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Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof. ~J.R. Ward
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. ~Irish Proverb
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I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal. ~Benjamin Carson
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Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. ~Ann Macbeth
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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