You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain. - Leonard Jacobson

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Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

Leonard Jacobson

You can be sad for others but you don't have to take on their pain.

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In the awakened state, the mind is either perfectly silent or it is a perfectly clear instrument of expression.

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You can live in a house, but your real home is inside you.

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Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up.

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When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Accounts are not quite settled between us," said she, with a passion that equaled my own. "I can love, and I can hate. You had your choice. You chose to spurn the first; now you must test the other.

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Barack Obama

I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day.

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Bruce Lee

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

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Rumi

This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say.

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