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You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.

Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.

You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script.

You don’t become what you want, you become what you believe.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

There’s more to life than being a passenger.

If a man can reduce his needs to zero, he is truly free: there is nothing that can be taken from him; nothing can hurt him.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

You have to know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

Confine yourself to the present.

Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.

This is the mark of perfection of character—to spend each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, laziness, or any pretending.