Quote by Anaïs Nin
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I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair. – Anaïs Nin

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There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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Life
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do…. Build, therefore, your own world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature

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Assurance is two-thirds of success. – Scottish Proverb

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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. – Author Unknown

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The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. – Henry Walter Bates

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Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. – Jeffrey Sachs

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