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You see, it’s never the environment; it’s never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events – how we interpret them – that shapes who we are today and who we’ll become tomorrow. - Tony Robbins

The most consequential cavity in your body is the mouth. Problems and solutions; failure and success; sadness and happiness, all flow from it. Keep it ‘clean’ when it is open and shut when it is ‘dirty’. - Unknown

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way. - Unknown

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing. - Jim Rohn

Never serve with the intention that you must get something in return, other than the joy of serving. Nobody will trust or support those with a heavy self-interest. - Unknown

We live in a discouraging world full of people who put us down. What bright lights we can be when we say the simple words, ‘I have confidence in you!’ - Florence Littauer

War - Sun Tzu’s Art of War - Quotes

A wise general forms a plan in a tent and settles a victory at even a distance of one thousand miles. - Sun Tzu

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. - Sun Tzu

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact. - Sun Tzu

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. - Sun Tzu

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. - Sun Tzu

In executing an Artful Strategy: When ten times greater, surround them; When five times greater, attack them; When two times greater, scatter them. If the opponent is ready to challenge: When fewer in number, be ready to evade them; When unequal to the match, be ready to avoid them. Even when the smaller opponents have a strong position, the larger opponent will capture them. - Sun Tzu

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt. - Sun Tzu

Peace proposals unaccompanied by a sworn covenant indicate a plot. - Sun Tzu

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. - Sun Tzu

The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. - Sun Tzu

The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. - Sun Tzu

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. - Sun Tzu

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. - Sun Tzu

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim. - Sun Tzu

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. - Sun Tzu

Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. - Sun Tzu

War is based on deception. - Sun Tzu

When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. - Sun Tzu

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. - Sun Tzu

Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph. - Sun Tzu

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The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. - Plutarch

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him. - Edgar Watson Howe

If you’re going to play the game properly, you’d better know every rule. - Barbara Jordan

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. - Unknown

It is better to slow down and get there than never to arrive at all. - Unknown

All we need is eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to understand. - Unknown

If you do not invest time to prepare, you will waste time to repair. - Unknown

Doing your best is more important than being the best. - Mike Lermer

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. - Unknown

What other people think of you is none of your business. - Unknown

Happiness - Quotes

The happiness of life is made up of little things – a smile, a helping hand, a caring heart, a word of praise, a moment of shared laughter. We are most alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

All the elements for you happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just be. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for. - Allan K Chalmers

Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think. - Buddha

Happiness cannot be far behind a grateful heart and a peaceful mind. - Unknown

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. -Charles Spurgeon

Happy are they who take life day by day, complain very little, and are thankful for the little things in life. - Unknown

Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don’t have. - Unknown

You will be happy on most days if you choose to look for things to be happy about. - Unknown

10 Amazing Ways To Stop Overeating

Psychologist Richard Wiseman of the YouTube channel "Quirkology" gives out 10 different tricks to stop overeating. Whether it's taking pictures of unhealthy food or using a different glass to drink from, there are helpful tricks for every situation.

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Weakness - Quotes

A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness. - Criss Jami

A sneer is the weapon of the weak. - James Russell Lowell

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition. - James Allen

It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong. - Otto von Bismarck

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel, that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. - Voltaire

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. - Eric Hoffer

Some weak people are sensible of their weakness and able to make good use of it. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

That which yields, is not always weak. - Jacqueline Carey The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls. - Roger Zelazny

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness. - Agatha Christie

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. - Criss Jami

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Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. - Unknown

The pessimist takes a dim view of life and acts negatively towards it; the realist sees life as it is and prepares himself for the unexpected. - Unknown

It is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving; It is not so much how slowly we go, but so long as we do not stop. - Unknown

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer

When people get to rubbing you pretty hard – just remember that’s the treatment that puts a polish on things. - Unknown

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. - Jim Rohn

It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. - Ben Stein

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more. - Unknown

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. - W. Clement Stone

Paraprosdokian

A paraprosdokian (from Greek, meaning "beyond" and "expectation") is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.

            Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a syllepsis.

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I never make the same mistakes twice. I make it five or six times, just to be sure. - Unknown

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. - Steven Pearl

I picked up a hitchhiker. You gotta when you hit them. - Emo Phillips

I saved a girl from being attacked last night. I controlled myself. - Rodney Dangerfield  

I saw a man at the beach screaming, “Help, shark, help! I laughed because I knew the shark wasn’t going to help him.

I started out with nothing and still have most of it left. - Unknown

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection. - Richard Lewis

I used to think I am indecisive, but now I am not so sure. - Unknown

I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. - Rita Rudner

I would jump in front of a train for you, as long as it’s not moving. - Unknown

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn’t want him to. - Rita Rudner

I was born intelligent - education ruined me. - Unknown

I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. - Alan Alexander 

I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister. - Will Marsh

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. - Steven Wright

I went to a garage sale. “How much for the garage?” “It's not for sale.” - Steven Wright

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as the quality of air that emanate from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson

For two people to please one another they must be very nearly alike, so that they may understand each other, and slightly different, so that they may have something to understand in each other. - Unknown

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. - Baruch Spinoza

To say exactly what you think and what you mean is very important, because generalities may often be interpreted in several different ways. Others can’t read you mind. - Unknown

The ultimate in disposing one’s troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you. - Sun Tzu

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and most delicate ways, improve yourself. - John Ruskin

Wealth - Quotes

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. - Miguel de Cervantes

A man is rich whose income is larger than his expenses, and he is poor if his expenses are greater than his income. - Jean de la Bruyere

All wealth is the product of labour. - John Locke

Almost every wealthy man in this country will tell you that his greatest satisfaction and happiest days were when he was emerging from poverty into a competency; when he first felt the tonic from the swelling of his small savings towards the stream of fortune, and knew that want would no longer dog his steps. - Orison Swett Marden

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. - G. K. Chesterton

Any man can become rich who is base enough to keep a brothel, a gin palace, or a gambling house. - Charles William Day

As large trees are not the most productive, neither are wealthy men the most liberal. - William Scott Downey

Being wealthy when no one else is is like being the only one at the party with a drink. - Tim Allen

Envy wealth for its power of good, not ill. - Edward Counsel

Equal distribution of wealth does not mean we all should be millionaires – it only means no one should die of hunger. - Dodinsky

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. - Barack Obama

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. - Seneca

Friends mostly test other's prosperity by their own; all wealth is but comparison of wealth. - Edward Counsel

Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being. - Arnold Bennett

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. - Henry Ward Beecher

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates

If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. - Horace

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. - Edmund Burke

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence. - Lyman Abbott

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let us not envy a certain class of men for their enormous riches; they have paid such an equivalent for them that it would not suit us; they have given for them their peace of mind, their health, their honour, and their conscience; this is rather too dear, and there is nothing to be made out of such a bargain. - Jean de la Bruyere

Never respect men merely for their riches; but rather for their philanthropy: we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use. - William Scott Downey

Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. - Charles Caleb Colton

Rich isn't an amount of money, it's a mind-set about how you live. - Unknown

Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use. - Benjamin Whichcote

Riches are not an end of life but an instrument of life. - Henry Ward Beecher

The first wealth is health. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble. - Charles Reade

The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato

The more wealth a man has, the louder his children talk. - Edgar Watson Howe

The most wanton torture is that of the rich trying to kill time. - Lewis F. Korns

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it. - Antoine Rivarol

The very first step to building wealth is to spend less than you make. - Unknown

The use we make of our fortune determines its sufficiency. A little is enough if used wisely, and too much if expended foolishly. - Christian Nestell Bovee

The wealthy seldom possess wealth: oftener they are possessed by it. - Ivan Panin

There is no greater wealth in this world than the peace of mind. - Unknown

There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! - Ann Radcliffe

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars. - Austin O’Malley

Those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one. - Charles Caleb Colton

Titles, riches, and fine houses signify no more to the making of one man better than another, than the finer saddle to the making the better horse. - Wellins Calcott

True wealth is living with passion and purpose. - Unknown

True wealth is not measured by money. The ‘wealthiest’ people on earth are mentally happy, and not those who are merely acting happy sitting on their wealth. - Unknown

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse. - Og Mandino

Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings. - Henry Ward Beecher

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. - Dean Koontz

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. - Charles Colton 

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. - Epictetus

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery. - Martin Farquhar Tupper

Wealth is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. - Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. - Frank Herbert

Wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. -

Wealth is both an enemy and a friend. - Nepalese Proverb

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. - Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is nothing more or less than a tool to do things with. It is like the fuel that runs the furnace or the belt that runs the wheel – only a means to an end. - Henry Ford

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. - Plato

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. - Seneca

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries. - Sophocles

Wealth which breeds idleness ... is only a sort of human oyster-bed, where heirs and heiresses are planted, to spend a contemptible life of slothfulness in growing plump and succulent for the grave-worm's banquet. - Horace Mann

Who is rich? He that enjoys his portion. - Benjamin Franklin

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.  - Epictetus

Worldly prosperity is like writing on water. - Unknown