
The Ultimate Book of Powerful Quotations: 510 Quotes about Wisdom, Love and Success

Robin Sacredfire

Published by 22 Lions Bookstore, 2018.

# Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

About Us

Introduction

Quotes

About the Publisher

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The Ultimate Book of Powerful Quotations: 510 Quotes about Wisdom, Love and Success

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# Introduction

Throughout human history, many where those who have enlightened mankind with the truth, and guided, each one in a special way, the rest of the world, toward a more joyful and prosperous way of living. While some are still remembered, most have been forgotten, and remain unknown to the masses, who in the darkness, ignore the fact that they may not even have access to a vast amount of knowledge during an entire lifetime, knowledge which has been segregated into small libraries, or very exclusive groups, most of them very selective in what regards the members they wish to allow access to such high knowledge. And so, the masses remain ignorant and imbecile as they ever where, starved for wisdom they neglect as much as they ridicule.

It was with this in mind, that the author has been collecting what he considers to be the most profound, clear and powerful quotes put on paper. In this book, you have access to the core of human wisdom, the most empowering quotations, resuming thousands of years of the most high wisdom present on planet Earth.

May this book be as a powerful medicine for your soul. And may you share it with others, so that more people can have the opportunity to free themselves from the boundaries of ignorance. For the more the world evolves, and the faster it does, the less evil will be present on the planet, as there is no such thing as evil amongst those who possess the truth of all truths, the light that shines on this world through the minds of the wise that either live or have lived here. These quotes set the beginning of a journey to an unknown territory, and may you never be the same after reading them. Repeat the reading as much as you can and may you grow in intelligence and compassion as much as you grow in strength.

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# Quotes

1. "A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance. The elevation of a culture can be measured directly by the numbers of its people working in the field of aesthetics. It happens, however that democracies and other forms of government are prone to overlook the role of the artist in the society. One of the greatest single moves that could be made to advance and vitalize a culture such as America would be to free, completely, the artist from all taxes and similar oppressions, and thus attract into the arts the most ambitious and able and invite them to pursue unchecked the creation of all the beauty and glory on which any culture depends if it would have material wealth."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

2. "A culture is only as great as its dreams and its dreams are dreamed by artists. When the level of existence of the artist becomes impure, so becomes impure the art itself, to the deterioration of the society. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably a rebel against the status quo. The artist, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

3. "A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

-- Albert Einstein

4. "A person giving you advice isn't perfect and has his own shortcomings, but may just give you the piece that you're missing."

-- Dr. Ali Al Omari

5. "A person who has difficulty in buying the labor that he wants, suffers inconvenience or the reduction of profits. The person who cannot sell his labor is in effect told that he is of no use. The first difficulty causes annoyance or loss. The second is a personal catastrophe."

-- Sir William Beveridge

6. "A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions."

-- Alan Watts

7. "A predominant characteristic of the behavior of those who I consider evil is the use of other people as scapegoats. Because they consider themselves above disproving, they must attack someone who disproves them. They sacrifice others in order to preserve their self-image of perfection."

-- M. Scott Peck

8. "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

-- Sir Francis Bacon

9. "A society which in any way inhibits, suppresses or regiments its artists is a society certainly doomed. And democracy, avidly taxing its powerfully creative individuals into non-production, snatches from the artist any fruits of victory and exacts an enormous penalty for the creation of any work of art. Some artists, regrettably, seek to act in their private and public lives in an intensively aberrated fashion in order to prove that they are artists. The education of this effect is such that we can commonly discover some young girl, in the field of arts, living like a prostitute in order to convince herself and her friends that she is truly artistic. Being artistic was commonly identified with being loose-moraled, wicked, idle and drunken. And the artist, to be recognized, tried to live up to this role. This feeling persists to this day and certain people often embrace the arts solely as an excuse to be promiscuous, unconventional and loose in morals. Any field which has critics galore, wherein a thousand different schools of divergent opinion can exist, where opinion is listened to with open mouths in lieu of reason by which any many can reach a conclusion, is an authoritarian field. Aesthetics, unfortunately, abounds in these critics and opinions. But a culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. When the level of existence of the artist becomes impure, so becomes impure the art itself to the deterioration of the society. For if the industry and commerce and material projects of a nation are carried on the backs of a few able, desperate men, then the honor an the glory of that society is carried and enhanced by the artist."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

10. "A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky."

-- Crazy Horse (Oglala Lakota Sioux)

11. "A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything."

-- Carlos Castañeda, PhD

12. "A wise man is like a living fire, a flame, but he cannot sell his life, he cannot serve, and he will rather die than to become a slave."

-- Osho

13. "A woman being too easy and open about having sex with other guys just isn't good for establishing trust and building a relationship that lasts."

― Dan Bacon

14. "According to Pythagoras, the structure of the world is based on the consonant intervals of the octave, the fifth and the fourth. The numbers of their proportions 2:1, 3:2 and 4:3 are the 'holy diversity' of what the Pythagoreans called tetractys: 1+2+3+4=10. 'Progress from oneness to the number four and the ten emerges, the mother of all things'. Within this formula lies the entire act of creation, from the splitting of the primal element into sexual duality, its propagation into the space-forming trinity, through to its completion in the four elements. In the Cabala, the work of creation unfolds according to a similar pattern, in four steps starting with the letters of the tetragrammaton, the unpronounceable divine name. In alchemy, too, this fourfold step, the 'axiom of Maria Prophetissa', plays a leading part. The tetractys also forms the basis of the image of the cosmic soul, to whose structure in the form of a Chi (X, the 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet) Plato refers to in the Timaeus. In line with the law of the proportional division of the chord, the matrix of all earthly phenomena unfolds here as a network of coordinates of fractions and multiples."

― Alexander Roob

15. "After an inferior man has been taught a doctrine of superiority he will remain as inferior as he was before his lesson. He will merely assume himself to be superior, and attempt to employ his recently-learned tactics against his own kind, whom he will then consider his inferiors. With each inferior man enjoying what he considers his unique role, the entire bunch will be reduced to a pack of strutting, foppish, self-centered monkeys gamboling about on an island of ignorance. There they will play their games under the supervision of their keeper, who was and will always be a superior man."

― Anton LaVey

16. "All beings are born inside an illusion, deceived by the dual division that produces the feelings of desire and repulse before the things of the world. But there are human beings who only do what is due, and no longer make any mistake; they are already free from the deception produced by the duality, and worship Me with all their soul. Those who seek refuge in Me and strive, are truly liberated from time and death. Those who concentrate their mind on Me, know me on earth and in heaven as the Supreme Being. Their souls are pure and remain in harmony, and even when their time of death arrives, they see Me."

-- Bhagavad Gita

17. "All entities living in the material sphere and, consequently, making use of a material body, generate earthly light force, which means that they transform the ethers which they themselves receive from the cosmic regions surrounding us."

-- Jan Van Rijckenborgh

18. "All is foreseen, yet man is endowed with free will."

-- Mishna, In Pirke Avot

19. "All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for."

-- Esther Hicks

20. "All the forces at man's disposal or under man's control, or subject to man's influence, are his working tools. The friendship and sympathy that knit heart to heart are a force like the attraction of cohesion, by which the sandy particles become the solid rock. If this law of attraction or cohesion were taken away, the material worlds and suns would dissolve in an instant into thin invisible vapor. If the ties of friendship, affection, and love were annulled, mankind would become a ranging multitude of wild and savage beasts of prey. The sand hardens into rock under the immense superincumbent pressure of the ocean, aided sometimes by the irresistible energy of fire; and when the pressure of calamity and danger is upon an order or a country, the members or the citizens ought to be the more closely united by the cohesion of sympathy and interdependence. Morality is a force. It is the magnetic attraction of the heart toward Truth and Virtue."

-- Albert Pike

21."All tiredness is, is willingness gone bad. People who are willing don't get tired. It's only when something makes them unwilling that they become exhausted. I could have somebody enthusiastically opening doors, you know, opening doors, opening doors, opening doors, opening doors. And then all of a sudden fix it so that doors wouldn't open. You know and they go... and all of a sudden they're tired. So you say, 'Well, they opened doors 222 times and that made them tired.' Oh no it didn't! They opened doors 222 times and that made them feel pretty good. But the time they didn't find themselves able to open, the door tired them out. Not only is he unwilling to open the door, but he's unable to do so; and he becomes exhausted."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

22. "All truths are Truths of Period, and not truths for eternity; that whatever great fact has had strength and vitality enough to make itself real, whether of religion, morals, government, or of whatever else, and to find place in this world, has been a truth for the time, and as good as men were capable of receiving."

-- Albert Pike

23. "An entrepreneur is someone who has made a conscious decision to choose freedom. This freedom doesn't come easy because being an entrepreneur isn't easy, but it will change your life in every way. Many of us spend years of our lives building someone else's dream and following someone else's rules. As entrepreneurs, we get to choose to work on the things that light us up, that motivate us, and that make a big impact for those around us. As entrepreneurs, we get to spend time with our family when we choose to, go on vacation when we choose to and surround ourselves with the people we choose to."

-- John Lee Dumas

24. "An evaluation on the level of aesthetics is not possible. You see, evaluation would take place on the level of logic. And therefore, you can't get logical about art. Beauty is an experience. It would have to do with a sensation."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

25. "An individual must rise above an avid craving for agreement from a humanoid group to get anything decent done."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

26. "Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

27. "Any knowledge of reality that isn't animated and controlled by the paradigm of complexity is doomed to be mutilated and, in this sense, to lack realism."

-- Edgar Morin

28. "Any person that you feel very closely drawn to, concerned about, terribly interested about, and that sort of thing, falls into either of these two: either you've got a close, close wavelength harmonic going or you've known them before."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

29. "As human beings, we have two states of consciousness: one is of this world, and the other is of the world beyond."

-- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

30. "As humans surrender to religion, their true spirit is reduced. On earth, charlatans have spread the lie that we came by order of Creation as angels, to bring to humans the long-sought peace, the truth, the protection and the orders of their God. That is a lie, because we have never received such orders and will never receive. Creation never gives orders. It's a law in itself, and every way of life must be conformed to it, and become part of it. Take that truth to the world."

-- Semjase (Pleiadian Extraterrestrial)

31. "As important as change is, however, most people just plain don't like it. As a result, those who create change are frustrated with family members, co-workers and employees who often display amazing resistance to the changes being implemented all around them. The reason so many people appear to resist change is because they are on a different time frame than those who create the changes. What complicates the change process is the fact that not everybody is at the same place at the same time. Some people are still holding onto the past and remain stuck in the ending stage. Others are just moving into transition. And, a few may have already entered into the new beginning. Change is inevitable and a certain degree of stress is predictable. The good news, however, is that misery is optional. When individuals and organizations understand that change is a people process, and not an event on the calendar, things will go better."

-- Jim Henion

32. "As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it. But when it no longer has the level of being a game, it plays you. It's the difference between being the chess player and the pawn. And the difference between being the chess player and the pawn is playing a game on a relatively non-serious level and being all the seriousness there is--that's the pawn. The pawn is handled on the board by somebody else. The pawn is not cause. The pawn moves as it is moved by the environment, and that's all it's moved. And it's a very serious pawn."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

33. "As long as one is convinced that the form in which he lives is real, it won't be possible to achieve a psychological split, it won't be possible for the inner being to separate himself from the outer being. And therefore, it won't be possible to penetrate the first level of the kingdom of the heavens."

-- Samael Aun Weor

34. "As we become more conscious, we also realize the deplorable state in which we find ourselves. It is then obvious why most people are not interested and do not understand anything related to the cosmos. This is something too far for them. To the vast majority, the only thing that matters are small subjects, the satisfaction of their addictions, their passions, their personal interests, worries and selfish desires, money and greed, fornication, alcohol, etc. This is humanity. Most people are not interested in laws and principles, because it is still far from them, and not part of their small worries."

-- Samael Aun Weor

35. "At the subatomic level, future events can and do influence the past."

-- Justin Faerman

36. "Be firm, be virile, be a man and then be a saint. If God gives you the burden, God will give you the strength."

-- Saint Josemaria Escriva

37. "Beauty has something to do with beingness. The biggest and widest canvas that you could paint would be the canvas of life. A man could actually achieve the level of being a professionally beautiful 'liver.' He could. There are some people you are glad to know simply because they seem to lead a beautiful life. It's interesting, isn't it?"

-- L. Ron Hubbard

38. "Before two human beings come in close physical contact, their auras have mingled; that is the reason why we 'feel the presence of another' at times before we become aware of him by means of our ordinary senses."

-- Max Heindel

39. "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes."

-- William Gibson

40. "Behave today as if the future were already here."

-- Blaine Barlett

41. "Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the Theory of Relativity and Principles of Uncertainty: phenomenon that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday I believed that I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. At each point of intersection, each encounter suggests a new potential direction."

-- Isaac Sachs

42. "Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."

-- Bob Marley

43. "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."

-- Matthew 5:8, In The Bible

44. "Books, to be of religious tendency in the Masonic sense, need not be books of sermons, of pious exercises, or of prayers. Whatever inculcates pure, noble, and patriotic sentiments, or touches the heart with the beauty of virtue, and the excellence of an upright life, accords with the religion of masonry, and is the gospel of literature and art. That gospel is preached from many a book and painting, from many a poem and fiction, and review and newspaper; and it is a painful error and miserable narrowness, not to recognize these widespread agencies of heaven's providing; not to see and welcome these many-handed coadjutors, to the great and good cause. The oracles of God do not speak from the pulpit alone."

-- Albert Pike

45. "Candles burn out; spiritual beings don't."

-- Grant Cardone

46. "Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner."

-- Lao Tzu

47. "Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control."

-- Terence McKenna

48. "Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. You can not turn away. Your destiny is bound to the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet, empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors."

-- Andrew Boyd

49. "Concentrate, focus and use power, but always remember balance."

-- Kesuke Miyagi

50. "Confrontingness is awareness. One can be aware of those things which he is willing in some way to confront. One, if he is willing--even to some slight degree--willing to confront something, he can become aware of it. But if he cannot confront it and will not confront it and has an idea that he must not confront it, it after a while disappears entirely from view and he is no longer able to be aware of it. And in that is contained IQ, ability, talent and all other such factors."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

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51. "Confusion is uncertainty. Confusion is stupidity. Confusion is insecurity. When you think of uncertainty, stupidity and insecurity, think of confusion and you'll have it down pat. What, then, is certainty? Lack of confusion. What, then is intelligence? Ability to handle confusion. What, then, is security? The ability to go through or around or to bring oder to confusion. Certainty, intelligence and security are lack of or ability to handle confusion. How does luck fit into confusion? Luck is the hope that some uncontrolled chance will get one through. Counting on luck is an abandonment of control. That's apathy."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

52. "Consider an empty jar. People might talk about 'the space inside the jar'; and this expression seems to suggest that the space inside the jar is separated from other space. In the same way a person may talk about 'my soul'; and this expression seems to suggest that the soul within an individual is separated from the soul within other individuals - and hence separate from God. In truth the space within an empty jar is the same as space elsewhere; there is simply space. And the soul within one individual is the same as the soul within another; there is simply soul - which is God." -- Sankara

53. "Courage could be summed up in: one, being willing to cause something; and two, going ahead to achieve the effect one has postulated against any and all odds. There doesn't happen to be any such thing as failure. But of course you all want to agree there's such a thing as failure so that you can have a reason to fail so you won't have to be cause. That's another thing. But there isn't any reason to fail. There's no excuse for any failure that ever occurred anyplace in history, except this: There was just not quite enough carry-through and push-through."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

54. "Decision and time have a lot in common. When we have a clean, clear decision, we have clean, clear time. And when we have indecision, there is an unclarity about time."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

55. "Democracy is the worst form of government you can have, because it's majority rule; and the government can tell you exactly what they want you to do, because the majority wants it."

-- Aaron Russo

56. "Divine Light is moving us with grace into a new reality and towards the rebirth of your fully conscious potential."

-- Sheldan Nidle

57. "Divine Wisdom doesn't need acceptance; the Light that shines with eternal tranquillity patiently awaits for the day in which it will be recognized and accepted."

-- Max Heindel

58. "Do not pass by a man in need, for you may be the hand of God to him."

-- Proverbs 3:27, In The Bible

59. "Do not send peacekeepers if there is no peace to keep."

-- Peter Carrington

60. "Do the work others aren't willing to do, and you'll get the things others will never have."

-- Bruce Van Horn

61. "Don't be afraid to feel lost. If you want God to paint a new dream in your life, you will need to let him erase and clean everything else you have first. We can only paint something new on a white canvas. You can't paint a new life on a canvas that has been already painted, with beliefs, attachments, values and a certain self-image, all of which are unaligned with the dream you have set into motion by desire. God has to paint what is new on a white canvas; and that's why you need to lose it all in order to have it all. And the more ambitious you are, the more often you will have to experience a restart, a new beginning, foreseeing the abandonment of the old within you. Your friends, your house, your job, and everything else that belongs to a fixed environment, belongs to a painting that you have dreamed once, but won't be part of the future you dream in your present state. It is very difficult to dream the new while inside the old, to recreate within what has been made, to rebuild without destroying, to recreate without breaking, to have the new without losing the old. The rules of this planet apply to building a chair as much as they apply to building a life."

-- Robin Sacredfire

62. "Don't quit any battle, no matter how tiresome the struggle. Always start again, without rest, so that you may find the light."

-- Jan Van Rijckenborgh

63. "Don't be content with what you earn, but be content with what you own. Don't allow material things to define who you are."

-- Bo Sanchez

64. "Don't be defined by the watch you use, the clothes you wear, and the car you drive. Be defined by your relationship with God."

-- Bo Sanchez

65. "Don't be in such as a hurry to condemn a person because he doesn't do what you do, or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."

-- Malcolm X

66. "Don't desire to be liked or admired. Don't give a damn. Because if you start giving a damn, you won't be liked or admired. The only way to really be liked and admired is not to care whether you're liked or admired and to act most any way you please. And you'll be surprised how many people will like and admire you, but that isn't why you act the way you please. You act the way you please and as you should because it's honest to. See, it's kind of a lie to be one thing and act like another just because it's polite."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

67. "Don't look on books as a sideline. They're your front-line troops. They're a planet wide assault on the subconscious mind. No one wants a subconscious mind but a psychologist. So everyone else will be your friend. I'm not saying this just because I want books sold. No. I'm saying this because I want a better planet. Do you?"

-- L. Ron Hubbard

68. "Don't make common what God has purified."

-- Acts 10:15, In The Bible

69. "Don't think there is anything in this universe that is completely easy to do. There is nothing that would be totally easy to do that would be worth doing. There's always some hard work alongside of any worthwhile project. There's always some heartbreak and there's always upset. That's the way this universe is built. Take it in stride."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

70. "Don't try to be perfect. There are no perfect personalities, even among the Sages. And you can also experience doing the best you can, and somebody will just hate you, basically. Like Christ said, 'they hate me for no reason'. Don't think that being a nice person is going to secure people liking you. There's no single being that is loved by everyone, including God. So just be true, inside. The most important discovery in the human kingdom is your essence."

-- Mooji Hawaii

71. "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously and accepting both of them."

-- George Orwell

72. "Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts. It champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change and propels us forward. In a world without dreams, there would be no adventure, no moon landing, no female CEOs, no civil rights. What a half-lived and tragic existence we would have. We should all dream big, and encourage others to do so, too."

-- Richard Branson

73. "During our life, we often tell others or ourselves that, 'I know how I should behave, but I cannot do it. I know what is right, and I still do something else again and again. I am simply unable to change.' The point is that, it is in itself not sufficient to know how to behave properly. Knowledge and real comprehension are two different things. For a real change, thorough comprehension is required. We need to understand that in the background of our apparently unchangeable patterns of behavior, there are our mental wounds, acquired in the past. These mental wounds have by now sunk into the unconscious. Unlike the physical wounds on our body, these mental wounds never heal. The patterns of behavior fueled by our mental wounds are self-sustaining. For instance, we are apprehensive of our boss because (s)he talked us in a superior way in front of our colleagues. Then, after a while, the apprehension fades away, and we believe that our anger is gone. But our anger has not really vanished. For a while, it had been conscious, but then it sunk into the subconscious, to the depths of our soul. That is where it is waiting for its turn, to emerge to the surface again. It may not have to wait long, as when we return home from work, the behavior of our wife or children might trigger the re-appearance of anger. We supply new strength, new intensity to our wrath, sustain it, and it will re-surface again and again in the rest of our life. When we become angry about something or someone, we believe that the anger belongs to us and is a part of our Ego. We then try to find some excuse for our behavior. Our most common explanation is that our anger was caused by the other person, or that it was the only possible behavior in the situation concerned. In this way, we reject responsibility, blame it on our environment, we try to find a scapegoat to blame for our behavior which is unacceptable even for ourselves. In the first step, we realized that anger is caused by our mental injuries. The environment only provides a framework for that anger to charge itself with energy and break to the surface in us. We shall only be able to achieve a real change in that respect if we realize that our grief, unhappiness, jealousy or anger, and our behavior related to these emotions are almost always the consequences of some internal wound. We must, therefore, cease trying to find excuses for our behavior all the time. We must take responsibility for our anger or unhappiness, and be aware that those are the products of our mental injuries."

-- Frank M. Wanderer, PhD

74. "Economics are as simple as they are not obscured. And as confused as they are made to serve a selfish purpose. Any child can understand--and practice--the basic principles of economics. But grown men, huge with the stature of Government or Chain Banks, find it very useful to obscure the subject beyond all comprehension. The things that are done in the name of 'economic necessity' would shame Satan. For they are done by the selfish few to deny the many. Economics easily evolve into the science of making people miserable. Nine-tenths of life are economic. The remaining one-tenth is social-political. If there is this fruitful source of suppression loose upon the world and if it makes people unhappy, then it is a legitimate field for comment in Scientology as it must form a large 'misunderstood' in our daily lives. Let us see how involved it can be made. If Mankind increases in number and if property and goods increase, then money must also increase unless we are to arrive at a point where none can buy. Yet money is pegged to a metal of which there is just so much and no more--gold. So if Man's expansion is to be checked, it will be checked simply by running out of this metal. And aside from art uses and superstition, the metal, gold, has almost no practical value. Iron is far more useful, but as it is one of the most common elements about, it would not serve the purpose of suppression of Man's growth. Money is a symbol that people are confident can be converted into goods."

― L. Ron Hubbard

75. "Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need for coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels."

-- Nikola Tesla

76. "Electronic music is a general future trend for music, but it is not what many people think of when they think of "computer music". It is not a series of beeps and hums. It is going to create new musical scales and sounds while giving us everyday sounds as music."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

77. "Energy, whether in the form of a mental image, a body, a tree or a rock, is alike the by-product of life. There is no faintest difference, save only density and wavelength, between the space you behold around you with your physical eyes and the spaces and forms you see when you close them and behold a mental image. These things, alike, are energies, and obey the various laws of energy. Here, then, we have a unit or a quality capable of bringing into being quantities such as spaces, energies, masses and time, capable of changing and controlling these masses and energies, capable of adding to them or subtracting from them."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

78. "Every authentic spiritual path has some mention or teaching around forgiveness."

-- Michael Beckwith

79. "Every since we were kids, we've categorized people, put them into different groups. The popular kids are always picked first. In general, our social structure flows from the bottom up, kind of like a pyramid. With the wide part of the pyramid representing the not so cool people, because there are so many of them. The top represents a few, rare, really cool people."

-- Jon Sinn

80. "Every time we experience pain or suffering, it is God's feedback system telling us that we need to learn something about love."

-- Alan John Miller

81. "Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is. Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery."

― Anne Frank

82. "Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things."

-- Frank A. Clark

83. "Everything that is moved, is moved in something and through something, which is bigger than what was moved. So what causes the movement is stronger than what is moved."

-- Hermes Trismegistos

84. "Faith is the ability to see the invisible."

-- Bob Proctor

85. "Faith is to believe what you do not see. The reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

-- Saint Augustine

86. "Fantasy detached from reason creates monsters but combined with it is the mother of all arts."

-- Francisco Goya

87. "Fate is what life brings you. Destiny is what you do with it."

-- Michael Bernard Beckwith

88. "Fear is a sickness. It will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it."

-- Flint Sky

89. "Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

90. "First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me."

-- Martin Niemoller

91. "Fools think that the ways of the world are wise; but the wise know where the ways of the world lead."

- Valluvar

92. "For every negative remark you make on another person, you should add three positive ones, from which at least one is a suggestion that can correct what you observe, as no house of wood can be built by looking at and complaining about the ugly trees, no society can evolve based on what the dead did not do, no painter can paint while looking at the paintings he dislikes, and no knowledge can be acquired by the mind that refuses to empty itself first."

-- Robin Sacredfire

93. "For how much effort are you willing to take responsibility? Because you will get as a counter-effort any effort you don't take under your responsibility."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

94. "Force yourself to smile and you'll soon stop frowning. Force yourself to laugh and you'll soon find something to laugh about. Wax enthusiastic and you'll very soon feel so. A being causes his own feelings. The greatest joy there is in life is creating. Splurge on it!"

-- L. Ron Hubbard

95. "Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free. He is his own trap."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

96. "Freedom lies beyond barriers. And as soon as you start to go in the direction of freedom, you'll find some barriers. And the trick is not to stand around and look at these wonderful barriers inside the head. Let's find out how able a fellow can be and how free he can be. The abler we can make a person, the freer he is. And so we are able, if we pursue ability. If we pursue disability, we are disabled."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

97. "Freethinkers will always seem crazy to those who don't take time to research. Never apologize for evolving past people's comfort zone."

-- David Wolfe

98. "Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. That's how I feel about friends. Even if I have only known them for a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them two years, because anyway we have met somewhere before, you know."

-- George Harrison

99. "From the beginning of this millennium all religions will become reconciled in the mystery of Rosicrucianism."

-- Dr. Rudolf Steiner

100. "Full responsibility is not fault, it is recognition of being cause."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

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101. "Future is the creation of a future illusion and the working toward that illusion to make it a reality."

-- L.Ron Hubbard

102. "God is a Producer. He says, "Make the movie of your life beautiful! Here's the budget."

-- Bo Sanchez

103. "God is still everywhere in nature. Wherever a heart beats with love, wherever faith and reason utter their oracles, their is God, as formerly in the hearts of seers and prophets. No soil on earth is so holy as the good man's heart."

-- Albert Pike

104. "God is the highest goal of human knowledge. We can know nothing of Him beyond His active manifestation within ourselves."

-- Catharose de Petri

105. "God judges people based on their heart and their actions."

-- Ruqsana Begum

106. "Good sense is to live fast, live beautifully and live dangerously. People who go around all the time figuring out how to survive longer are wasting randomity: They're wasting motion, wasting action, wasting adventure. What an enemy of beauty that concept is. The dramatization that the only good paintings there are, are at least three hundred years old is another symptom of this, you see? 'All good paintings are old paintings'. This is some kind of an effort on the part of an artist who is more sadistic than I care to have around, or an art critic, to make people recognize that it can only be beautiful if it's old or something. This is completely in reverse to the fact of the case."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

107. "Great men seem never so scarce as when they are most needed, and small men never so bold to insist on infesting place, as when mediocrity and incapable pretense and sophomoric greenness, and showy and sprightly incompetency are most dangerous. To seek to subjugate the will of others and take the soul captive, because it is the exercise of the highest power, seems to be the highest object of human ambition."

-- Albert Pike

108. "He has life in his hands and passes it to a stranger; and that person is hoisted to safety and a helicopter takes her away and it comes back; and the same scene repeats itself four more times; and every time, he's got his hands on a rope ladder, he is this close to save his life and every single time he passes it to a stranger, not his wife, not his daughter, not his best friend, a stranger. And when the helicopter came back for him, he had succumbed to fatigue and drowned. His name was Orland Williams. I'm not asking you to be Reagan. I'm not asking you to be Lincoln. I'm just asking you to live a quiet life of conviction and virtue and actually live out what you profess to believe, and if you can do that, you'll be a leader."

-- Trey Gowdy

109. "He has no name or form; yet he is the source of all the elements - space, air, fire, water and earth - from which all forms are made."

-- Mundaka Upanishad

110. "He that looketh only upon that which is carried upward as fire, that which is carried downward as earth, that which is moist as water, and that which bloweth or is subject to blast as air, how can he sensibly understand that which is neither hard, nor moist, nor tangible, nor perspicuous? Seeing it is only understood in power and operation."

-- Hermes Trismegistus

111. "He who asks a question is a fool for a minute. He who does not remains a fool forever."

-- Buddha

112. "He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

-- James Freeman Clarke

113. "His head will be very heavy from the great amount of knowledge that he has acquired, yet it will be a useless knowledge, because its value is not based on the value of the spirit, and is not uniform with the laws of the Creation but is based only on human laws."

-- Talmud of Jmmanuel

114. "How do we find ourselves when awakening? It is hard what I am about to tell you: When one awakens to the truth, he finds that those he considered similar, that before he considered to be normal people, he finds that they are not normal, but abnormal. But this only happens when one awakens. When one is asleep, he believes to be normal and thinks that everyone else around him is normal too. However, when one awakens, with profound pain he finds himself inside an asylum, in which everyone is insane. And yet, one is also insane if thinking he is sane. For when a crazy person accepts that he is crazy, this is an unequivocal sign that he is healing. When we disintegrate the ego, the conscience awakens and the mind becomes normal. And only then we realize that we were in a madhouse, or that we are still in a madhouse."

-- Samael Aun Weor

115. "How much can Man conquer? He loses if he conquers Man. He wins if he conquers his own fears and conquers he stars."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

116. "Humanity seeks the path of self destruction through its abnormal intellectualism and formation of rational habits."

-- Jan van Rijckenborgh

117. "I am a gorilla, I am one with the flowers, the animals and nature. And I love people as much as I love the planet. But people are stupid and they should care more about the planet. They must protect it." \- Koko

118. "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

-- Stephen Covey

119. I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia, in which we are not only the slaves of this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it."

-- David Icke

120. "I choose you, one from a thousand and two from ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single unity. Whoever has ears, let him hear, for there is light within a person of light, and it illuminates on the entire world. And when one doesn't shine, there is darkness."

-- Jesus, In The Gospel of Thomas

121. "I do not believe in going half-way in anything. You either go all the way, or you don't do it."

-- Bob Proctor

122. "I do not believe that any of us have dreams that were not given to us."

-- Les Brown

123. "I don't want to live in a world where there's no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity."

-- Edward Snowden

124. "I had a very special teacher in high school many years ago whose husband unexpectedly died suddenly of a heart attack. About a week after his death, she shared some of her insight with a classroom of students. As the late afternoon sunlight came streaming in through the classroom windows and the class was nearly over, she moved a few things aside on the edge of her desk and sat down there. With a gentle look of reflection on her face, she paused and said: "Before class is over, I would like to share with all of you a thought that is unrelated to the class, but which I feel is very important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn, share, love, appreciate and give of ourselves. None of us knows when this fantastic experience will end. It can be taken away at any moment. Perhaps this is God's way of telling us that we must make the most out of every single day." Her eyes beginning to water, she went on, "So I would like you all to make me a promise. From now on, on your way to school, or on your way home, find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have to be something you see -- it could be a scent -- perhaps of freshly baked bread wafting out of someone's house, or it could be the sound of the breeze slightly rustling the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light catches one autumn leaf as it falls gently to the ground. Please look for these things, and cherish them. For, although it may sound trite to some, these things are the 'stuff' of life. The little things we are put here on earth to enjoy. The things we often take for granted. We must make it important to notice them, for at any time, it can all be taken away." The class was completely quiet. We all picked up our books and filed out of the room silently. That afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from school than I had that whole semester. Every once in a while, I think of that teacher and remember what an impression she made on all of us, and I try to appreciate all of those things that sometimes we all overlook. Take notice of something special you see on your lunch hour today. Go barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on the way home tonight to get a double-dip ice cream cone. For as we get older, it is not the things we did that we often regret, but the things we didn't do. Take time to notice."

-- Jonnie Jensen

125. "I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'."

-- Muhammad Ali

126. "I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won't make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance."

-- Michio Kaku, PhD

127. "I have met the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians, and I know, for a fact, that although they speak of the light and even, in some cases, consider themselves  to be enlightened, they all live in the darkness. I have not me a single one of them that possesses the light. God may be compassionate of some but has abandoned them all."

-- Robin Sacredfire

128. "I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others. If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives. And there is a way to know them and there is a way to freedom. The old must give way to the new, falsehood must become exposed by truth, and truth, though fought, always in the end prevails."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

129. "I often meet people who are too busy to take care of their wealth. And there are people too busy to take care of their health. The cause is the same. They're busy, and they stay busy as a way to avoid something they do not want to face. Nobody has to tell them. Deep down they know. In fact, if you remind them, they often respond with anger or irritation. If they aren't busy at work or with the kids, they're often busy watching TV, playing golf or shopping. Yet, deep down they know they are avoiding something important. That's the most common form of laziness. Laziness by staying busy. So what is the cure for laziness? The answer is a little greed."

-- Robert Kiyosaki

130. "I shall describe the people whom I love. They have goodwill towards all living beings, and are incapable of ill will. They are friendly and compassionate. They regard nothing as their own possession, and want no position of power for themselves. They are indifferent to both pleasure and pain. They are patient, contended, and self-controlled. They are firm in faith, and their hearts and minds are utterly devoted to me. They serenity is constant, and cannot be disturbed by others; on the contrary, their presence makes others feel serene. They are not elated by good fortune, nor depressed by misfortune. They do not compete with others, and they have no fear of failure. They are not attracted to particular people and places, nor are they repelled by particular people and places. They are both selfless and efficient in all their actions. They have no desire for pleasure, and no fear of pain. They never grieve over the death of others or the loss of material goods; they accept with equanimity every event as it occurs. They love friends and enemies equally. They are not encouraged by praise nor discouraged by blame. Whether they are honored or despised, they remain perfectly calm. Within their hearts there is silence. These are the people whom I especially love."

-- Bhagavad Gita

131. "I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life."

-- Ziad K. Abdelnour

132. "I want you to succeed just like I want to succeed. When you fail, I fail. Together we have to rediscover what it's like to be human."

-- Alex Jones

133. "I wanted to give something of my past to my grandson. So I took him into the woods, to a quiet spot. Seated at my feet he listened as I told him of the powers that were given to each creature. He moved not a muscle as I explained how the woods had always provided us with food, homes, comfort, and religion. He was awed when I related to him how the wolf became our guardian, and when I told him that I would sing the sacred wolf song over him, he was overjoyed. In my song, I appealed to the wolf to come and preside over us while I would perform the wolf ceremony so that the bondage between my grandson and the wolf would be lifelong. I sang. In my voice was the hope that clings to every heartbeat. I sang. In my words were the powers I inherited from my forefathers. I sang. In my cupped hands lay a spruce seed - the link to creation. I sang. In my eyes sparkled love. I sang. And the song floated on the sun's rays from tree to tree. When I had ended, it was as if the whole world listened with us to hear the wolf's reply. We waited a long time but none came. Again I sang, humbly but as invitingly as I could, until my throat ached and my voice gave out. All of a sudden I realized why no wolves had heard my sacred song. There were none left. My heart filled with tears. I could no longer give my grandson faith in the past, our past. At last I could whisper to him: 'It is finished!.' 'Can I go home now?', he asked, checking his watch to see if he would still be in time to catch his favorite program on TV. I watched him disappear and wept in silence. All is finished."

-- Chief Dan George

134. "I was already a writer. I just wasn't making a living at it. When I found that I could, that I could be paid to do what I loved to do most, I turned professional. It allowed me more time to write, research and travel."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

135. "I would teach children music, physics and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning."

-- Plato

136. "I'm convinced 70% of people have serious psychological problems."

-- Tai Lopez

137. "I've always had the ability to put an idea down on the page. I don't really outline. I just write. I think if I wanted to be characterized in a certain way as a writer, I would ask that it be that I am a writer who loves to write. That is not as axiomatic as it may sound. There are a lot of writers who don't like to write and some who even hate it but are still called "writers" because they make a living at it - the 9 to 5 type, so to speak. But it has never been that way with me. I don't watch the clock when I write. In fact, I've gone days without sleep just because I was enjoying myself so much I just plain forgot. How could one forget sleep? Well, just imagine doing something that is more exciting than anything you have ever done and see if you worry or think about what time it is."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

138. "I'm not as good as I want to be. But I'm twice as good as you think I am."

-- Dan Inosanto

139. "I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance."

-- Jon Stewart

140. "If a person destroys the ego, the conscience awakens and reality is revealed."

-- Samael Aun Weor

141. "If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

142. "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."

-- Isaac Asimov

143. "If people are allergic to control, it's then something they ought to settle with themselves. A person can only be controlled against his will so long as he is allergic to control. So long as it is against his will. A person who is very, very bland about the whole subject, who doesn't mind being controlled, who does not conceive there is some tremendous danger to him in being controlled can, one, be controlled as easily as a little toy. And two, can knock off that control as easily as a giant. He has power of choice over control."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

144. "If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough."

-- Robin Sharma

145. "If someone says that one will be free from all ideas and thoughts if one does not think, this is a big error. Those who practice like this will get sick or go crazy."

-- Suzuki Shōsan

146. "If the world around him is bad, then he is unwilling to grant life. If the world around him he conceives to be good, he is willing to grant life to it. A world with life granted to it runs well. A world with no life granted to it goes into chaos and disappears. Now, this is the riddle of the centuries."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

147. "If we walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth."

-- John 1:6

148. "If we were living in harmony with the seasons, most of us would not be working the same hours in winter. In fact, we'd be resting."

-- Paul Wyrd

149. "If what you have to say isn't more beautiful than silence, don't speak."

-- Pythagoras

150. "If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

-- Maya Angelou

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151. "If you don't accept your divine vocation, there's no need to be a prophet to predict, with certainty, that you're choosing a path of difficulties and sorrows, of useless and endless misery. Exhausted and slouched by life, after many bitter experiences, after perhaps many years, you'll finally be forced to follow your vocation. Notice, however, that you can't rule out the possibility that by then you're so damaged that from this state nothing new can arise and there's no other choice but to follow the path of all flesh."

-- Jan van Rijckenborgh

152. "If you don't take care of yourself, you can't be at your best."

-- Harvey MacKay

153. "If you have crazy dreams, you have to be willing to put in crazy hours."

-- Tai Lopez

154. "If you have pleasure in living, you're already a revolutionary; if you refuse a job that sacrifices you, you're being a revolutionary; if you can create your own values, you're being super revolutionary. There's nothing more important than emotions. You can be very rich, but without love, you're miserable."

-- Eduardo Marinho

155. "If you lack the self-discipline for meditation, then engage yourself in my work, which is the selfless service of others."

-- Bhagavad Gita

156. "If you let your present results control your thinking, you are going to create more of the same."

-- Bob Proctor

157. "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

-- Haruki Murakami

158. "If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."

-- Nikola Tesla

159. "If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in."

-- Alexander Warbucks

160. "If you're alone and miserable, then obviously you're in bad company."

-- Sri Jaggi Vasudev

161. "If you're living your life only to survive, there's no difference between you and a cow."

-- Lama Michel

162. "If you're not spiritually connected to the Earth and understand the spiritual reality of how to live on Earth, it's likely you will not make it."

-- Floyd Red Crow

163. "If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world."

-- Nikola Tesla

164. "Imagination is powerful, while fantasy is a disease. We must therefore end our fantasies, and replace them with a conscious and guided imagination."

-- Samael Aun Weor

165. "Important encounters are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other."

-- Paulo Coelho

166. "In a world where order is chaos, where wise men are viewed as fools and where fools are ruling the world and viewed as wise men, there is a need to create a real new world order. A new world order where the mental confusion will disappear, where peace and love will prevail and where the Human Rights will be really fully respected."

-- Rael

167. "In earlier times, it was easier to control a million people, literally, than physically to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people than to control a million people."

-- Zbigniew Brzezinski

168. "In essence, life is a game composed of barriers. Individuals set up certain purposes and those purposes actually consist of barriers. The barriers are of time, of space, walls. Individuals who read a book are setting up a barrier of three hundred or five hundred pages between themselves and the end and they go through the book to the end of the barrier. They like to do it. Happiness could be defined as the overcoming of not-unknowable obstacles toward a known goal. In other words, not too many barriers, but enough barriers. And an individual has to be super-interested continuously in direct ratio to the degree he has been denied things to be interested in. And if a person has been denied enough things to be interested in, they're fresh out of goals. Their dreams are dead. They're dead."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

169. "In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive."

-- Jordan B. Peterson, PhD

170. "In order to defeat your enemy, you must not see your opponent as an enemy. Imagine what it would be like to be him, embrace and admire that state of being, and then you will know what he fears the most. For you would have feared the same if you were him. It is a law of this universe that one cannot defeat that which can't defeat him as well. And, in this sense, there are no enemies, winners or losers, but only different perspectives in what regards the same experience. And yet, sometimes one also wins when losing."

-- Robin Sacredfire

171. "In order to make up one's mind to be responsible for things, it is necessary to get over the idea that one is being forced into responsibility. The power of choice is still senior to responsibility."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

172. "In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

173. "In the case of the man, as in the case of the woman, we have an unwillingness to be the other sex. This is considered natural, but do you know that when this is entirely true, when we have complete determinism to be self and not to be to any slightest degree the other person, there is no sexual pleasure interchange of any kind whatsoever? We get the condition known as satyrism and nymphomania. We get a tremendous anxiety to have a sexual flow."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

174. "In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind."

-- Louis Pasteur

175. "In the heart of a being, in the ethereal region, in the court of the gods, is the "ousia", the true substance, colorless and formless, impalpable, which can only be contemplated by the soul."

-- Plato

176. "In times of chance learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

-- Eric Hoffer

177. "In what can a person become entrapped? Ideas. Ideas of disability are first and foremost in entrapment."

― L. Ron Hubbard

178. "Initial psychology, such as that which St. Thomas Aquinas began, and many other later writers expanded, was severely disrupted in 1879 by Professor Wundt, a Marxist of the University of Leipzig in Germany. This person conceived Man as a soulless animal and based all his work on the principle that there was no psyche (a Greek word meaning spirit). Psychology, the study of the spirit (or mind), then placed itself in the strange position of being "a study of the spirit, which denied the spirit." In the following decades Wundt's "psychology" was intensively taught around the world. It taught that Man was an animal. It taught that it was impossible to improve man. It taught that Intelligence never changed. This subject, Wundt's psychology, became a model to follow, especially due to the indifference or lack of wisdom of the people who ran the Universities."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

179. "Insanity is the overt or covert but always complex and continuous determination to harm or destroy. The basic characteristic of extreme madness is perpetual attack, attacks on anything, attacks on persons or things which contain no menace."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

180. "Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, E.T.s, etc. They are visiting Earth now; This is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking."

-- Theodor C. Loder III, PhD

181. "Is it necessary for you to be willing and able to confront everything no matter how cruel, how mean, how low, how dirty, how vicious? To live is it necessary that you go on confronting these things perpetually just to prove that you can? Freedom of choice of what to confront may not be a road to freedom, but it's certainly a road to a vast amount of peace of mind. Don't confront it because you have to. Don't confront it because you must. You can confront it to prove to yourself that you can confront it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

182. "Is it possible to be happy? A great many people wonder whether or not happiness even exists in this modern, rushing world. Very often an individual can have a million dollars, he can have everything his heart apparently desires, and is still unhappy. We take the case of somebody who has worked all his life; he has worked hard and he has raised a big family. He has looked forward to that time in his life when he, at last, can retire and be happy and be cheerful and have lots of time to do all the things he has wanted to do. And then we see him after he has retired and is he happy? No. He's sitting there thinking about the good old days when he was working hard. Our main problem in life is happiness, but I'll tell you more in a moment. The world may or may not be designed to be a happy one. It may or may not be possible for you to be happy in this world, and yet nearly all of us have a goal to be happy and cheerful about existence. You know, very often we look around at the world around us and say that nobody could be happy in this place. We look at the dirty dishes in the sink and the car needing a coat of paint and at the fact that we need a new gas heater, we need a new coat, we need new shoes or we would just like to have better shoes; and so, how could anyone possibly be happy when actually he can't have everything he wants? He is unable to do all the things he'd like to do, and therefore, this environment doesn't permit a person to be as happy as he could be. Well, I'll tell you a funny thing a lot of philosophers have said this many, many times but the truth of the matter is that all the happiness you ever find lies in you. You remember when you were maybe five years old, and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day, and it was a very, very beautiful day, and you looked at the flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers they are wilted. The day isn't a happy day. Well, what has changed? You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world, something must have changed. Probably it was you. Actually, a little child derives all of his pleasure in life from the grace he puts upon life. He waves a magic hand and brings all manner of interesting things into being out in the society. Here is this big, strong brute of a man riding his iron steed, up and down, and boy, he'd like to be a cop. Yes sir! He would sure like to be a cop; and twenty-five years later he looks at that cop riding up and down and checks his speedometer and says, "Doggone these cops!" Well, what is changed here? Has the cop changed? No. Just the attitude toward him. One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

183. "It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

-- Sylvester Stallone

184. "It is as easy to create a castle as a button. It's just a matter of weather you're focused on a castle or a button."

-- Esther Hicks

185. "It is better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction."

-- Herman Siu

186. "It is impossible to conceive of salvation as something external to the soul, to be attained by external activities such as the performance of rituals. If salvation were attained by external activities, it would imply that these activities in some way created salvation - in which case it could not be divine."

-- Sankara

187. "It is impossible to sow seed in rock and harvest its fruit. Come, so that I may teach you about secrets that no other person has seen, for there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extent no generation of angels has seen, in which there is a great invisible Spirit, which no eye of an angel has ever seen, no thought of the heart has ever comprehended, and that was never called by any name.' Upon saying this, a luminous cloud appeared there, and Jesus continued, 'Let an angel come into being as my attendant.' Then a great angel, an enlightened of the Divine Self-generated, emerged from the cloud. And following him, four other angels came into being from another cloud, and they became attendants for the Angelic Self-generated. And he said, 'Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star.' Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw the luminous cloud, and they entered it."

-- Jesus, In The Gospel of Judas (280 AD)

188. "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

-- Charles Darwin

189. "It is often enough to point out unwanted conduct to a social personality to completely alter it for the better. For example, you say, "Ed, you won't stay married for long if you yell at your wife." Ed says, "Oh, yea, you're right. I'm sorry." Because Ed is a social person, he no longer yells at his wife. Employees, bosses and co-workers, who are social personalities, are fun to work with. They are considerate and kind. They change and improve themselves. But self-criticism is a luxury the antisocial cannot afford. Only the sane, well-balanced person tries to correct his conduct."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

190. "It is the thing everybody is after. If you didn't have something that everybody was after, then you wouldn't have any game. And so we get down to one of the most fundamental agreements of our present society: that money is something everybody is after and very few people have."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

191. "It isn't the instrument, it's the artist. Anybody who can play standard instruments can also play computers. The point is not the instrument, it's the artist. Give him new sound, and he can make new vibes."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

192. "It requires only one man's decision to destroy an entire continent and so poison the atmosphere that maybe all food will perish. And then Man's gone. The danger here is not radiation, the danger is Man's uncivilized state. Unless something can come along and cure him of his barbarism, he is not going to survive. If Man is to survive, he must first be capable of facing his enemies. And until he can be brought to face his real, true enemies on Earth, he cannot be really considered to be a civilized being. Why? Because he's fighting the wrong targets. Man will fight his real enemies. He isn't fighting them now."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

193. "It's been proven again and again. Hypochondriacs, people who are convinced that they are sick, even though nothing is wrong with them, experience the exact symptoms of the actual illness. For them, the illness is just as real as if their bodies were ravaged by disease. It is also possible to make yourself ill through constant worry and fear of failure, because the mind constantly strives to turn into reality the things we think about most. Protect your mental health with the same care you give your physical body. Just as your body requires healthy, nourishing foods, and a balanced diet, so does your mind. Make sure you feed it plenty of positive thoughts."

-- Napoleon Hill

194. "It's important to look at the world with wide-eyed enthusiasm, and believe that you are more powerful than the problems that confront you. We are only limited by our imagination. Also remember that the benefits of having big dreams far outweigh the perceived risks, because their value isn't just measured by the outcome, but by the inspiration that comes from the journey of achieving them. Dream big, and you could be presented with the opportunity to lead the world on an incredible adventure - even one to other worlds."

-- Richard Branson

195. "It's normal for people to have problems in life. It's not normal to label it and try to make profit out of it."

-- Toby Watson

196. "Judge others by their questions, rather than by their answers."

-- Voltaire

197. "Just as all things were created from one Chaos by the design of one God, so in our art all things are born from this one thing which is our Chaos, by the design of the Artificer and the skillful adaptation of things."

-- Isaac Newton

198. "Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look. Knowledge is residual in you, or you wouldn't even be able to understand it. The knowledge is yours as much as mine. You should be able to know how to use that knowledge and you should be able to know all about that knowledge, and stop respecting it as something super special because it's just the woof and warp of which life is made. And if you don't understand all sides of it, you won't get anyplace."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

199. "Knowledge is the most genuine and real of human treasures; for it is light, as ignorance is darkness."

-- Albert Pike

200. "Knowledge! Endeared as a precious torch, abhorred as a neurotic's nightmare, it is all knowledge, knowledge, knowledge! You get diplomas for it and buy books full of it, you perish for the lack of it or triumph in the absence of it, but whatever it might be, knowledge is precious, dangerous, valueless and horrible and craved. Knowledge, truth, secrets -- they are the guts and anatomy of life. They must not then be owned. They must not then be hidden or bent. They must be permitted to stand out in the bold sunlight for all to see, for only when they are to be seen are they safe things to have, to hold, to know. That mind which understands itself is the mind of a free man. It is no longer prone to obsessive behavior, unthinking compliances, covert innuendoes. It is at home in an environment, not a stranger. It is the solver of problems and the maker of games. A mind that is enslaved is weak. A mind that is free is powerful, and all the power there is, is defined by and contained in freedom."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

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201. "Learn to meditate. Close your eyes; calm your breathing; and focus your attention on the centre of consciousness. Thus you will master the senses, the emotions and the intellect - and thereby free yourself from desire and anger."

-- Bhagavad Gita

202. "Let us watch these mighty ones as they pass silently by. First, Orpheus, playing upon the seven stringed lyre of his own being, the music of the spheres. Then Hermes, the thrice greatest, with his emerald tablet of divine revelation. Through the shades of the past we dimly see Krishna, the illuminated, who on the battlefield of life taught man the mysteries of his own soul. Then we see the sublime Buddha, his yellow robe not half so glorious as the heart it covered, and our own dear Master, the man Jesus, his head surrounded with a halo of Golden Flame, and his brow serene with the calm of mastery. Then Mohammed, Zoroaster, Confucius, Odin, and Moses, and others no less worthy pass by before the eyes of the student. They were the Sons of Flame. From the Flame they came, and to the Flame they have returned. To us they beckon, and bid us join them, and in our robes of self-earned glory to serve the Flame they love. They were without creed or clan; they served but the one great ideal. From the same place they all came, and to the same place they have returned. There was no superiority there. Hand in hand they labor for humanity. Each loves the other, for the power that has made them masters has shown them the Brotherhood of all life."

-- Manly Palmer Hall

203. "Let whoever think whatever; Just keep getting better."

-- Tai Lopez

204. "Life happens by design or default; the choice is ours."

-- Bob Proctor

205. "Life is a group effort. None survive alone."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

206. "Life is really short. If you add up all your traveling, sleeping, school, and entertainment, you've probably been half of your life doing nothing. And we don't stay here, we're just trustees, we don't own anything. Even your children are not yours. Your wife is not yours. You die and come back a year later, and go slip in your bedroom and see if your wife is by herself. This is not life you're having now. Your real self is inside you. Your body gets old, some of you have no teeth, your hair is leaving you, your body gets tired, but your soul and your spirit never die."

-- Muhammad Ali

207. "Light is conscience and conscience is light; and there will come a day in which the light will triumph, and we become enlightened. Darkness is unconscience; and the light is awakened conscience. Once the light conquers darkness, we will succeed in the infinite space."

-- Samael Aun Weor

208. "Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot."

-- Jack Kerouac

209. "Live a lifestyle that matches your vision."

-- Bhagavad Gita

210. "Live fast and you live long. No time for empty dreaming. No time for useless building. But only time to live and taste the wine of living. No time to be afraid. No time to waste on worry. Only the moment, for that is the only thing in life worth saving."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

211. "Living is having and following a purpose. That's all. That's the formula of life--have and follow a purpose. That's it. If you do it, you're living and if you don't do it, you're not living. And that's all there is to it. I've now given you the basic fundamental of existence and that really is it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

212. "Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise."

-- Mikhail Naimy

213. "Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."

-- Dalai Lama

214. "Love is the highest art. In ancient times you trained so hard, not for the sake of killing people, but for the love of your family: for the love of your mother, your father, your children, your tribe, and your body. It is the love of life. That's why we train so hard, so you can preserve life."

-- Dan Inosanto

215. "Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing."

-- Mikhail Naimy

216. "Loving someone or something and the sadness of losing someone or something are events that have their place in the relative. However, our true being is situated outside the relative and the physical universe, and sees in love all that appears and disappears. The soul knows that the great absence can only be filled by the Other, the non-relative essential being. This discovery is totally therapeutic and alive. This Other in us, this being, is like fire without smoke. It lives deeply hidden in every human being, in the cavity of the heart. He is the master of time, of the present, of the future and of the past. It does not change, it's always the same; and everything that is, is that."

-- Katha Upanishad

217. "Luck is the usual answer one resorts to in a confusion. If the forces about one seem too great, one can always "rely on his luck". By luck we mean "destiny not personally guided". When one turns loose an automobile wheel and hopes the car will stay on the road, by luck, he is often disappointed. And so it is in life. Those things left to chance become less likely to work themselves out."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

218. "Making money is very simple. But making sustainable money while being responsible to the society and improving the world is very difficult."

-- Jack Ma

219. "Man is more and more powerful, has mastered matter, is less and less restricted by distance, but he is still emotionally unstable and psychologically ignorant and this hinders any genuine co-operation."

-- Henri Hartung, PhD

220. "Man is no bubble upon the sea of his fortunes, helpless and irresponsible upon the tide of events. Out of the same circumstances, different men bring totally different results. The same difficulty, distress, poverty, or misfortune, that breaks down one man, builds up another and makes him strong. It is the very attribute and glory of a man, that he can bend the circumstances of his condition to the intellectual and moral purposes of his nature, and it is the power and mastery of his will that chiefly distinguish him from the brute. Never was a human being sunk so low that he had not, by God's gift, the power to rise. Because God commands him to rise, it is certain that he can rise. Every man has the power, and should use it, to make all situations, trials, and temptations instruments to promote his virtue and happiness."

-- Albert Pike

221. "Man thrives on complexity and thinks that if he can only add one more piece of complexity he will have it all solved. That is a trap. He has been going in the wrong direction and the proof of it is the state of society - from the predominance of drugs to his arsenal of atomic weapons. Man was thrown into this game called 'life' and never given the rules. When you understand the source of aberration, when you understand the game, when you can regain your worth and purpose, you have gained more than the world, you have gained the stars and beyond."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

222. "Man's views in regard to God, will contain only so much positive truth as the human mind is capable of receiving; whether that truth is attained by the exercise of reason, or communicated by revelation. It must necessarily be both limited and alloyed, to bring it within the competence of finite human intelligence. Being finite, we can form no correct or adequate idea of the infinite; being material, we can form no clear conception of the spiritual. Even Omnipotence cannot infuse infinite conceptions into finite minds; nor can God, without first entirely changing the conditions of our being, pour a complete and full knowledge of His own nature and attributes into the narrow capacity of a human soul. Human intelligence could not grasp it, nor human language express it. The visible is, necessarily, the measure of the invisible. The consciousness of the individual reveals itself alone. His knowledge cannot pass beyond the limits of his own being. The Deity is thus not an object of knowledge, but of faith; not to be approached by the understanding, but by the moral sense; not to be conceived, but to be felt."

-- Albert Pike

223. "Many wars were fought in the name of freedom; each nation has its heroes, who gave their blood in exchange for freedom in the battle field; but we are still slaves to ourselves, we remain imprisoned by the ego."

-- Samael Aun Weor

224. "Many will laugh as they read this, but the planet we inhabit has turned uninhabited in space for millions of years, and it would happen again if men forgot that they owe their superior existence, not to the ideas of a demented ideologue, but to the understanding and ruthless application of natural laws as old as creation."

-- Adolf Hitler

225. "Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the western world. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence."

-- William Golding

226. "Masonry is not made for cold souls and narrow minds, that do not comprehend its lofty mission and sublime apostolate. Here the anathema against lukewarm souls applies. To comfort misfortunes, to popularize knowledge, to teach whatever is true and pure in religion and philosophy, to accustom men to respect order and the properties of life, to point out the way to genuine happiness, to prepare for that fortunate period, when all the factions of the Human Family, united by the bonds of toleration and fraternity, shall be but one household, these are labors that may well excite zeal and even enthusiasm. Its teachings are eminently practical and its statutes can be obeyed by every just, upright, and honest man, no matter what his faith or creed. Its object is to attain the greatest practical good, without seeking to make men perfect. It teaches those truths that are written by the finger of God upon the heart of man, those views of duty which have been brought out by the meditations of the studious, confirmed by the allegiance of the good and wise, and stamped as sterling by the response they find in every uncorrupted mind. It does not dogmatize, nor vainly imagine dogmatic certainty to be attainable. It teaches that man has high duties to perform, and a high destiny to fulfill, on this earth; that this world is not merely the portal to another; and that this life, though not our only one, is an integral one, and the particular one with which we are here meant to be concerned; that the present is our scene of action, and the future for speculation and for trust; that man was sent upon earth to live in it, to enjoy it, to study it, to love it, to embellish it, to make the most of it. His life here is part of his immortality; and this world, also, is among the stars. The unseen cannot hold a higher place in our affections than the seen and the familiar."

-- Albert Pike

227. "Mass Consciousness: One of the most fundamental truths - and yet difficult to understand - is that people live at different levels of consciousness. One doesn't assimilate this teaching in its deepest implications just by reading or thinking about it; it is necessary to observe the way people act, think, speak, feel, react, live, what occupies their thought, how they use time, what worries them, the goals they have in life, what they're talking about. And then it becomes evident that they all live on different levels of consciousness and even the level of consciousness in which they live. The vast majority of humanity lives in an instinctive biological-social level. At this level, people are conditioned by the current values and by the common mentality. Their identities are a mere extension of the norms, beliefs, customs and taboos of the society in which they were born. They live polarized in survival and, if possible, in the accumulation of money, power and status. At the very least, they need a safe job and a companion to mate and breed. They hate solitude; they have no original ideas or thoughts; they talk about what everybody talks about, they have the opinions that the media, opinion leaders and the status quo want them to have. They read sports newspapers and magazines about television programs, talk about people and everyday trivial events. They would like the world to change but don't start on their own. They consume goods and services that they don't need in fact and which only value is the very act of being acquired and the status associated with them - in the illusion that they will be more on the day when they have more. They live whole lives repeating the same mental and emotional patterns, submerged in their own subjectivity and unable to see each other objectively. They have no idea what "energies", "archetypes" or "patterns" are. They have no idea that life is a process of personal growth and development and not a struggle for survival. They are the automatons that the system needs to ensure its reproduction and the maintenance of its own structures. They constitute the "mass consciousness". Getting rid of mass consciousness has a very high price. Because the values of society are reductive, but they give security - the same security that a flock gives to a sheep. Evolving to another level of consciousness demands questioning and thinking for oneself; Implies being misunderstood and ridiculed by those who do not see further. It implies living with the hollow, mechanical conversations of those around us. It means being free. And society doesn't like free individuals, because they're a flaw in the system and a bad example for the automatons - and they are the ones needed, so that all this works."

-- Nuno Michaels

228. "Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought."

-- Alexander Hamilton

229. "Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

230. "Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving."

-- Dan Millman

231. "Money is the concrete representation of the abstract unit of account."

-- J. Zijlstra

232. "Money is the reward for risks taken, value delivered and promises kept."

-- Robin Sharma

233. "Money isn't good or bad. It's neutral. It's what you do with money that makes the difference."

-- Sakshi Zion

234. "Money will make you happy only if you have learned how to be happy without money."

-- Bo Sanchez

235. "Moral conduct is conduct by a code of arbitrary laws. Ethical conduct is conduct out of one's own sense of justice and honesty. When you enforce a moral code upon people you depart considerably from anything like ethics. People obey a moral code because they are afraid. People are ethical only when they are strong."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

236. "Most evil people realize the evil deep within themselves but are unable to tolerate the pain of introspection or admit to themselves that they are evil. Thus, they constantly run away from their evil by putting themselves in a position of moral superiority and putting the focus of evil on others. Evil is an extreme form of a character disorder. Ultimately, evil arises out of free choice. Every person stands at a crossroads, with one path leading to God, and the other path leading to the devil. The path of God is the right path, and accepting this path is akin to submission to a higher power. However, if a person wants to convince himself and others that he has free choice, he would rather take a path which cannot be attributed to its being, the right path. Thus, he chooses the path of evil."

-- M. Scott Peck

237. "Most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge."

-- Pythagoras

238. "Music is a higher revelation than philosophy."

-- Beethoven

239. "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

-- Plato

240. "My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?"

-- David Mitchell

241. "My mission is very simple: I want to kill a culture. I have been thinking about this for a long time and I believe I now have the key. It has to do with reading. It has to do with literacy. It has to do with the way we communicate with one another, the way we educate our children, the way we form the next generation. I want to drive a wedge between people, make them feel different from one another. If I can accomplish that, then I can accomplish so many other things--intolerance, racism, political and social division, even hatred based on religious views and philosophical beliefs. For are all these things not founded in ignorance, and is ignorance not founded in illiteracy? Lower a society's literacy level and you kill it. It's that simple. I think I shall begin with television. I shall ensure that the vast majority of televisual "entertainment" is banal and unimaginative. I'll create "reality" shows that present the most mundane ideas as interesting and important. I will promote and intensify these banalities through the internet. I will make the important unimportant and celebrate those who produce nothing but trivial and meaningless distractions. I'll work my way into schools. I'll incapacitate a teacher's ability to teach by overwhelming him with bureaucracy and paperwork. I'll frustrate all his endeavors with rules and regulations designed to squash his inherent purpose to educate. Then I'll start to close the libraries. I'll say it's because of lack of funding. Everyone is already worried about money, about taxes, about the rising cost of social needs, and it will be easy to convince them. After all, who's using them nowadays? Certainly not the kids, right? Of course, I'll keep on funding the manufacture of arms and drugs and other such vital things, but the libraries have got to go. Then I'll lower the price of books. That will be easy enough. I'll talk about a fair marketplace, the necessity for competition. I'll use business terms. I'll put it all in the realm of finance and commerce and most people won't really understand it anyway. I'll devalue the worth of a book until bookstores and publishers go out of business and writers won't be able to support themselves. It might be difficult at first. I might face some protest, some disagreement, but those that have the will to protest and disagree will be in the minority. You see, the longer my plan continues, the less people will be reading, so few people will find out about it anyway. I will see to it that those who are left reading are served a diet of "literature" that does not challenge, does not provoke debate, does not raise intelligence or enhance their understanding of life. We wouldn't want that, would we? I mean, there are some dangerous precedents, aren't there? Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle", when read by Theodore Roosevelt, provoked a government-ordered inquiry into the way Americans were being fed. Edith Maude Eaton's Mrs. Spring Fragrance highlighted racism against the Chinese in America and caused the Chinese Exclusion Act to be repealed in 1943. Conrad's The Secret Agent was the first acknowledged publication about the truths of terrorism. Literature is powerful, provocative, contentious, impactful, unforgettable and, even when read for pleasure alone, there are few books that do not--at least in some small way--change the perspective of the reader. Wasn't it Helen Exley who said, "Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled 'This could change your life.' "So yes, I have to be careful of those who read, of those who encourage and promote reading, of those who would attempt to inspire others, of those who would seek to fire the imagination or lift the spirit of their fellow Man. And if I am successful in my mission, if I manage to reduce the population to unthinking, unquestioning robots who merely do what they are told, who believe what they hear on the radio or television, who never challenge or fight back or demand justice for wrongdoing, then what will I have? Well, I will have exactly what I want: a society without art, without music, without culture, without vision, without a future. I will have a society of division, intolerance, prejudice, low morals and soaring crime rates. History tells the tale. It was accomplished by the Romans. They brought the society down to a point where sex and violence became the mainstay of that culture's "entertainment." It was accomplished in Hitler's Germany, where people became afraid to say anything at all that contradicted the ruling tyranny. It was the same in Stalin's Russia. Yes, I am sure it has to begin with reading. If I can kill the desire to read, if I can stem the availability of books and literature, then more than half the battle will be won. You may think this cannot be done. You may have fooled yourself into believing that such a thing could only happen in Rome, Germany or Russia. Well, let me tell you a few home truths. Fact: 343 libraries have been closed in the UK. More than a hundred are now under threat. As for independent bookstores, an article in The Telegraph has already reported that the number of UK bookstores halved between 2005 and 2012. That was over 2,000 closures in seven years--over 280 a year, close to six a week. Six hundred towns now have no bookshop at all, and the number has only increased since then. So, you think it can't be done. Think again. The library at Thebes was considered to be the greatest in the world. There were four words inscribed over the doorway: "Medicine for the soul." What happens when we have accomplished illiteracy, intolerance and prejudice? I think we will also have accomplished a rejection of all things religious, philosophical and spiritual. The statement above the doorway will mean nothing, for there will no longer be any such thing as a "soul.""

-- R.J. Ellory

242. "My salvation is to let all this roll over me, to write, write and write some more. To hammer keys until I am finger worn to the second joint and then to hammer keys some more. To pile up copy, stack up stories, roll the wordage and generally conduct my life along the one line of success I have ever had. I write."

― L. Ron Hubbard

243. "Narcissists fear abandonment so much that they are terribly insecure. Also, since they invest nothing but bad-faith in their end of a relationship, they think everybody is as untrustworthy as they. All this makes them so insecure that they have a frenetic compulsion to constantly measure themselves of your attachment to them by testing its strength. The only way to test that is by treating you badly to gauge how much abuse you will take. Stupid? Or what? What the narcissist thus does to reassure himself of your attachment to him destroys it, causing what he dreads - abandonment. And he knows that. But he just can't stop it. Because he is a mental four-year-old who lives in terror of abandonment and can't control himself."

-- Kathy Krajco

244. "Never be afraid to do what is right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."

-- Martin Luther King Jr.

245. "Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

246. "Never reject an idea, dream or goal because it will be hard work. Success rarely comes without it."

-- Bob Proctor

247. "Never set yourself on fire, just to keep others warm."

-- T. Kent Nelson

248. "No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."

-- John 4:12, In The Bible

249. "Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly."

-- Morticia Addams

250. "Nothing needs reforming so much as other people's habits."

-- Mark Twain

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251. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

-- Albert Einstein

252. "Now, if you yourself, all by yourself, could actually change the world--and don't think that you couldn't--there are people all over the place who tell you that you can't, but that's because you can. It should be very, very frightening to you to realize that if people have to work this hard to convince you you can't change everything around, it must be that you have some danger in doing so, see? You must be slightly dangerous. If everybody worked this hard to convince you you mustn't do anything and you mustn't take responsibility for anything, then it follows that there must be some menace from your quarter. You can feel very, very proud if everybody has been jumping on you with both feet most of your life."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

253. "Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than what you think."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

254. "Of the matter, the subtlest and slender part is air, of the air the soul, of the soul the mind, of the mind God."

-- Hermes Trismegistus

255. "Oh, you think the darkness is your ally, but you merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it."

-- Helen Keller

256. "On a hot day we often see a mirage of water ahead of us. If we believe that the mirage is genuinely a lake, our feelings of thirst are stimulated. So where does truth lie? The water is fantasy, but the thirst is real. During a dream a man may think he is drowning in the sea, and he is gripped by fear. So where does truth lie? The drowning is fantasy, but the fear is real. Life in this world brings pleasure and happiness to some, and pain and misery to others. So where does truth lie? Is this world really a place of happiness, or is it really a place of miser?"

-- Goswami Tulsidas

257. "On some there was consensus: cooperation among central bankers is preferable to "benign neglect;" discipline among policy makers is essential - both in strengthening economic fundamentals and in maintaining a coherent public stance when intervening in currency markets; regulation or controls will not work; a credible alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency is desirable; and it is critical to increase savings levels in the US."

-- Hilmar Kopper

258. "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."

-- George Orwell

259. "One of the primary barriers in this society to total freedom is economics. Suppressives have been weaving a web of economic entanglement for societies for some time using economic misinterpretations or ignorance to involve those societies which only recently struck off their chains of actual slavery. Today the chains are made of economic restrictions and, to be blunt, economic lies. An understanding of economics is a bold step forward toward total freedom in a society. Today almost any person has a present time problem, growing more pressing as time goes on and as our society evolves. It is a simple question: 'How can I live?' The answer to this question in a broad general way can be found by attaining an understanding of a subject called Economics. Economics are as simple as they are not obscured. And as confused as they are made to serve a selfish purpose. The things that are done in the name of 'economic necessity' would shame Satan. For they are done by the selfish few to deny the many. Economics easily evolve into the science of making people miserable. Money is simply a symbol that people are confident can be converted into goods."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

260. "One feasts on the purity and beauty of gold, and is filled; while another feasts upon the gold itself, and is never hungry."

-- Mikhail Naimy

261. "One is done wrong by the weaklings of this world, not the strong men. One does not have to enslave and control by force those whose conduct he does not fear. When you find an individual who is bent entirely upon a course of the arduous control of the motions of others, you are looking at an individual who is afraid. By their fear you shall know them. One of the primary barriers in this society to total freedom is economics. Suppressives have been weaving a web of economic entanglement for societies for some time using economic misinterpretations or ignorance to involve those societies which only recently struck off their chains of actual slavery. Today the chains are made of economic restrictions and, to be blunt, economic lies. An understanding of economics is a bold step forward toward total freedom in a society. Aberrations tend to blow when their lies are exposed."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

262. "One pays karma not only for the evil one does, but also for the good that one fails to do when able to do it. He who has the means with which to pay, pays and comes out well in his dealings. He, who does not have the means to pay, undoubtedly must pay with inevitable pain."

-- Samael Aun Weor

263. "One should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

264. "One studies the area, one takes the data he can get, one develops what he can't, one applies what he finds. And the result is a real product. When times get worse or conditions are not of the best, one has to study and work that much harder to make it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

265. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

266. "Our culture spends half the time leaving messages, talking on the phone, looking at screens of one kind or another, or sitting at the wheel of a car. Our great-grandparents did not live like this, they had face-to-face conversations, they told stories, they talked about gossip, wrote letters and even walked for pure enjoyment, not for exercise. Our society is forgetting the art of living together, and we have come to the point of believing that we live to work instead of working to live. This is truly a pity as the human race has evolved to a great extent from our need to seek the company of others to share our experiences and adventures with them. This is how we can understand our world."

-- Nicholas Boothman

267. "Our first teacher is our own heart."

-- Cheyenne Proverb

268. "Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of their governments and have gone to war. And millions have been killed because of this obedience. We recognize this from Nazi Germany."

-- Matt Damon

269. "Our suffering is the result of our mistakes. When we do mistakes, their fruit is suffering. We do mistakes because we are imperfect. We are imperfect because we have a self within us. When the self, the identity, disappears, then arrives our true and real happiness."

-- Samael Aun Weor

270. "Our thoughts, our beliefs, our actions, are electrochemical reactions in our brain. The first step towards consciousness is humility. We are nothing but dust. When we look at the plants, the animals, the Earth, we are so small. But at the same time, we embrace all the universes. The level of awareness and the level of intelligence are measured by the level of love you give to others. When there is neither consciousness nor intelligence, there is no love."

-- Rael

271. "Past lives, or times we have lived before, are suppressed by the painfulness of the memory of those former existences. The memory is contained in mental image pictures which, on close viewing, are capable of developing a reality "more real" than present time. Where a person has been tortured or killed without adequate reason, the injustice of it causes him or her to protest by holding in suspension in time the picture. To restore the memory of one's whole existence, it is necessary to bring one up to being able to confront such experiences. A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale? Psychosomatic illnesses such as arthritis, asthma, rheumatism, heart trouble, and on and on for a total of 70 percent of man's ills--and women's too--are the reaction of the body against a painful mental image picture or engram. When this picture is cleared away--if it is the right picture--the illness usually abates. Actual fevers and pain, etc., can turn on just by restimulation of mental pictures in a person. The recovery of whole memory could be said to be a goal of processing. Past lives are "incredible" only to those who dare not confront them. In others, the fact of former existence can be quickly established subjectively. An amusing sidelight on past lives is the "famous person" fixation. This more than anything else has discredited having lived before. There is always some madman "who was Napoleon," always some girl "who was Catherine the Great." This evidently means that the person, living a contemporary life to a famous figure, was so unsuccessful that he or she "dubbed in" the great personage. People have also been animals and perhaps some animals have been people. And we have also known horses and dogs of "human intelligence." Perhaps they had just been generals or ministers of state and were taking it easy for a life or two to cure their ulcers! Viewing children in the light of knowledge of past lives causes us to revise our estimations of causes of child behavior. Evidently the new-born child has just died as an adult. Therefore, he or she, for some years, is prone to fantasy and terror and needs a great deal of love and security to recover a perspective of life with which he or she can live."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

272. "People are in such a state of mental diarrhea, all the time, with nonstop thoughts going on, that they think more often in a state of non-existence than existence. You think logically that you will arrive at inclusive consciousness, but it is not going to happen, because you are using a knife to stitch. If you use a knife to cut, it is efficient, but if you are using a knife to stitch, you will only tear things further apart."

-- Sri Jaggi Vasudev

273. "People are looking for a less threatening environment or, knowing mostly that they can't escape to that, looking for a way to be more enduring in the environment they're in. It's a two-way look. They'd love to be able to get out or they'd love to be able to master. But they don't think they can, to a large degree. They know they can't get out very far and it wouldn't do any good. And nobody has ever been able to give them anything by which they could exert much more influence on their environment than before. And those are the basic goals and targets of the individual."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

274. "People do not acquire obsessively those things which they do not fear. An individual has to resist something, has to be afraid of something, has to be afraid of the consequences of something before it can have any adverse obsessive effect upon him."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

275. "People getting their mercury fillings removed report immediate and dramatic changes in focus, attention, memory, concentration."

-- David Goodman

276. "People keep their eyes closed to evidence so that their preconceived ideas can remain alive."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

277. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily."

-- Zig Ziglar

278. "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

-- Bill Watterson

279. "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

-- Aristotle

280. "Power of choice is actually the lowest order of decision. We've already been presented with two or more situations to have to exercise a power of choice amongst them. But it still is a first cousin to decision. It still has decision connected with it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

281. "Raise the determinism of an individual up to a point where he is capable of controlling his mental pictures and the various by-products of life. When he is capable, so far as his ability is concerned, of controlling and determining the action of these things, he is no longer aberrated. He can recall anything he wants to recall without the aid and assistance of energy masses. He can be what he wants to be. He has had restored to himself a considerable freedom. Actually, an awareness of awareness unit cannot do anything else but survive. He is unkillable. Yet his by-products are destroyable, and, confusing himself with his by-products, he begins to believe that he has to have or do certain things in order to survive. His anxiety becomes so great on this that he will even believe that he has to have problems in order to survive. An awareness of awareness unit is very unhappy unless it has some mass or space of some kind and does not have various problems to solve."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

282. "Realize that we are one family."

-- Floyd Red Crow

283. "Reason is immortal; Everything else is mortal."

-- Pythagoras

284. "Religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, nor consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. The doctrines of the Bible are often clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine. A perfectly pure faith, free from all extraneous admixtures, a system of noble theism and lofty morality, would find too little preparation for it in the common mind and heart."

-- Albert Pike

285. "Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

-- Dan Inosanto

286. "Rituals and sacrifices are expressions of lower knowledge. If you wish to become wise, ignore all rituals and sacrifices, and go in search of higher knowledge. Religious people, who devote themselves to rituals and sacrifices, are ignorant of their ignorance. In their own estimation they are wise; and they are proud of their religious learning. Yet they are like fools who walk round and round in circles, going nowhere. They urge others to participate in their rituals and sacrifices. Yet they are like the blind leading the blind. They live in darkness of spiritual adolescence, unaware of any higher purpose."

-- Mundaka Upanishad

287. "Run in such a way that you may win."

-- Corinthians 9:24, In The Bible

288. "Sanity is the ability to recognize differences, similarities and identities. This is also intelligence."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

289. "Science and Psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself."

-- Bob Proctor

290. "Seek not to weed out evil from the world; for even weeds make good manure."

-- Mikhail Naimy

291. "Self-determinism depends upon the ability to be. And we find out that beingness is in space. Before you can be anything you have to have space. If you can control that space, you can be anything you want in it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

292. "Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time."

-- Bob Proctor

293. "Sex disappears through meditation, but this isn't destroying energy, energy is never destroyed. Only the form of energy changes, it is no longer sexual, and when the form is not sexual, you become a much more lovable human being. A person who is only sexual, uses love only as a technique in the direction of sex. And a means. A sexual person can't really love, he can only explore the other. And love is just a form of approaching the other. Someone who has become nonsexual, with the energy moving inwardly, has become self-ecstatic. The ecstasy of herself is itself. Such a person will be lovable for the first time. Her love will be a constant sharing, a constant giving. To achieve this, you don't have to be anti-sex. To achieve this, you have to accept sex as part of life, of natural life. Move with it, just move with more awareness. Consciousness is the bridge, the golden bridge, from this to another world, from hell to paradise, from the ego to the sacred. The ego only understands the language of taking; And the language of love is giving. I can't say anything more. Besides, there is nothing more to be said in addition; If life can become like a tree, spreading its branches wide open so that everyone can shelter in its shadow, then we will understand what love is. There are no scriptures, maps or dictionaries for love."

- Osho

294. "Shame on you if you get a few people firing at you and believe it."

-- John Travolta

295. Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws."

-- Confucius

296. "So what do you validate? You validate those things you want to exist or want to be and you validate those postulates which you want to exist and which you want to be. And how do you invalidate? Conceive a nothingness about it. Don't fight it, just conceive a nothingness about it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

297. "Some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who."

― Jim Rohn

298. "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

-- Warren Buffett

299. "Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and oneself. For whatever reason, efforts to improve oneself, to become happier in life, can become the subject of attacks. It is sometimes necessary to handle such directly. But there is a long-range handling that seldom fails. What, exactly, are such people trying to do to one? They are trying to reduce one downward. The real handling of such a situation and such people, the real way to defeat them is to flourish and prosper. If you flourish and prosper more and more, such people go into apathy about it: they can give it up completely. If one's aims in life are worthwhile, if one carries them out, one certainly will wind up the victor."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

300. "Sometimes problems don't require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them."

-- Dr. Steve Maraboli

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301. "Study generates knowledge; knowledge prepares love; love, similarity; similarity, communion; communion, virtue; virtue, dignity; dignity, power; and power performs the miracle."

-- Trithemius

302. "Success is the best prove that a theory is correct."

-- Joseph Evers

303. "Talk to a person who works from eight o'clock until five with no goals, with no future or no belief in the organization or its goals, who is being required by time payments, rent and other barriers of an economic variety to invest all of his salary as soon as it is paid, and we have an individual who has lost the notion of freedom. The understanding of freedom, then, is slightly complex in that individuals who do not have it are not likely to understand it. Freedom is the absence of barriers. Less freedom is the presence of barriers. A barrier is matter or energy or time or space. The more matter, energy, time and space assumes command over the individual the less freedom that individual has."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

304. "That our influences shall survive us, and be living forces when we are in our graves; and no merely that our names shall be remembered; but rather that our works shall be read, our acts spoken of, our names recollected an mentioned when we are dead, as evidences that those influences live and rule, sway and control some portion of mankind and of the world - this is the aspiration of the human soul. We see then how far the monuments of genius and learning are more durable than monuments of power or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continue twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter, during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have decayed and been demolished? It is not possible to have the true pictures or statues of Cyrus, Alexander, Caesar, no, nor of the Kings or great personages of much late years; for the originals cannot last, and the copies cannot but lose of the life and truth. But the images of men's genius and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages; so that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make age so distant to participate of the wisdom, illumination, and inventions, the one of the other. To learn, to attain knowledge, to be wise, is a necessity for ever truly noble soul; to teach, to communicate that knowledge, to share that wisdom with others, and not churlishly to lock up his exchequer, and place a sentinel at the door to drive away the needy; is equally an impulse of a noble nature, and the worthies work of man."

-- Albert Pike

305. "That which a person works hardest on, he winds up having. That's one of the fundamentals of the universe. That to which he devotes energy, he finally has."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

306. "That which is always made is always corrupted. That which is made but once is never corrupted, neither becomes any other thing."

-- Hermes Trismegistus

307. "That which one validates comes true. The only force or strength life has is that which derives directly from the upper echelon of understanding. When life gets down to a point where it is incomprehensible, it cannot relay any understanding. It will be found that the acceptance level and expectance level of a person very definitely monitor what he can pull in and what he can throw away."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

308. "That which seems most simple is the hardest of all: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

309. "The ability to be silent increases personal magnetism and develops willpower and power over oneself."

-- Adriano Camargo Monteiro

310. "The aggressive personality views life from a win/lose perspective, and they create oppositional relationships. Interactions with them become struggles for control of our personality and our life. Their weapons of choice are hurt and anger; their strategy is to make you feel bad; and their outcome is for you to change your mind, your attitude or your behavior. But you always have a choice--and options! The most important thing to remember in any personal conflict is that we cannot change anyone else. However, we can choose to change ourselves and how we react to others' attempts to manipulate us. When faced with aggressive behavior, we have two possible responses. First, we can assert ourselves, confront the attack (which means we avoid reacting to the emotions and sensations their tactics trigger in us), and neutralize the onslaught. This is the assertive choice. Second, we can allow ourselves to be drawn in and manipulated and respond by using one of three non-assertive communication styles. We can give in to the attack and avoid the issue at hand (passive); we can resort to imitating the difficult behavior by being manipulative right back (aggressive); or we can attempt to get even and teach them a lesson (passive-aggressive). As long as a difficult person is allowed to behave in an inappropriate or unacceptable way, and they are rewarded for this behavior by getting their needs met, they will have no incentive to change. Assertive negative feedback works! Difficult people do not respect people who allow them to get away with their manipulations; therefore, we must give the difficult person timely feedback (assertive negative) that their behavior is not acceptable. Unfortunately, many people try to avoid confrontation because they believe a confrontation will simply escalate the already tense situation, or they believe any type of confrontation or negative feedback will not coincide with their image of a "nice person." Assertive negative means you must let the other person know as soon as possible that their action, tone or behavior is not acceptable to you. It sounds mature and grown-up, functional and healthy, professional, in-control and confident; it can even sound caring and comforting. For example, an aggressive negative response might sound like: "You are so lazy and irresponsible. How many times do I have to tell you to clean up your room?" Or "Oh fine. That's a great idea. I'm sure our clients will really enjoy waiting two extra days for their order." Or "I'm sick of dealing with you! I've had it!". A more powerful, effective assertive negative response for each follows: "Son, I need you to clean your room now. I know you've had a lot going on after school, and it's easy to get distracted, but this needs to be your No.1 priority." Or "I'm concerned that the new shipping schedule will cause a delay in getting our clients their orders on time. What can we do to make sure this doesn't happen?" Or "I'm frustrated and tired right now, and I'm sure you are too, so we're getting nowhere with this discussion. Let's talk again later." Three important things changed: The other person has been told that we have noticed their behavior and we feel it is not acceptable, appropriate or necessary. There were no insults, put-downs, sarcastic statements or threats used. We did not ignore, reward, accept or emulate their negative behavior. The bottom line is that most difficult people are cowards. They really do not want to deal with anyone they think might see through the tears and threats and assertively take them on face to face. But aggressive people do want control. They want to get their needs met and have been taught by the rest of us that manipulation using hurt and anger usually works. Assertiveness requires you to think about what you need to say, how you want to say it, and to stick to the subject--your subject, not theirs. Be aware of detours and refuse to take them. You do not need to make excuses, defend yourself or apologize for stating your needs firmly with confidence and taking back control of your life!"

-- Connie Podesta

311. "The alchemical operation is a paradigm of the creative process."

-- Wayne Schumaker

312. "The artist's task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. If artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found."

-- Terence McKenna

313. The atoms of the chemical and life ethers gathered around the nuclear seed atom located in the solar plexus are shaped like prisms."

-- Max Heindel

314. "The best way to know any future is to cause one. And that's why, you see, when you start consulting the oracle at Delphi, you've taken a step downhill. You have assigned cause for the future elsewhere. So one predicts the future as much as one is cause. The future isn't a pattern laid out to abuse and bully you. The future is a beautiful playground that nobody happens to be combining. You talk about virgin territory - the most virgin territory there is, is the future. You can do anything you want with it."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

315. "The biggest problem in your life and of our time is not global warming, recession, or who's the president; It's ignorance. It's hard to fix the stupid."

-- Tai Lopez

316. "The body of desires must be directed and not repressed, transforming low emotions into high ambitions through a service dedicated to higher ideals."

-- Augusta Foss-Heindel

317. "The book you don't read, won't help."

-- Jim Rohn

318. "The computer is less limited than standard instruments and you will probably see the same guys on the stages in a few years playing computers. They picked up electric guitars, didn't they? And now listen to any rock group and you hear all sorts of weird wah-wahs and strange sounds."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

319. "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."

-- Nikola Tesla

320. "The Devine soul does not fight. It always withdraws from conflict and radiates love to take its place. Evil always destroys itself in the presence of love."

-- Hans Andrea

321. "The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."

-- Malcolm Forbes

322. "The ebb and the flow are found inside a single tide; and the one without a leader finds within the best guide. The greatest among us is always the smallest; and everything is given to the one who gives away anything."

-- Mikhail Naimi

323. "The eel leaves our shores annually and lays its eggs deep in the Atlantic Ocean between the Bahamas and Europe. After that, there are no signs of them, but their offspring find their way back, for over four thousand miles, to our rivers. They swim for almost three years, keeping a constant route to the shores of Great Britain, while the American eels, which distinguish themselves by a shorter backbone, invariably return to their own country. This seems to indicate that their instinct takes them to the primeval breeding ground from which both European and American eels will have originally migrated. We can witness a similar phenomenon in relation to the lemming of Scandinavia. The lemming, a small rodent, seems to feel periodically a migratory impulse to the South, during which countless numbers of these animals leave the coast of Norway and swim in the Atlantic. When they arrive at the place where the migratory impulse has called them, they swim back and forth for a considerable period of time, as if searching for a land that instinct tells them to be there, but finally exhausted, sink into the depths. Large flocks of birds, too, follow their example and fall to the sea, exhausted, and the beautiful catopsilia of French Guiana's cage-wings, which was described by Dr. William Beebe, the American naturalist, obeys a similar oceanic call. Annually, the males of the species depart in fatal flight. They rise in the sky in great colored clouds."

-- Lewis Spence

324. "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate; but it is fear."

-- Gandhi

325. "The first draft of anything is shit."

-- Ernest Hemingway

326. "The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

-- Milan Kundera

327. "The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it, basically, because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."

-- Charles Bukowski

328. "The future is not what it used to be."

-- Paul Valery

329. "The game of life demands that one assume a beingness in order to accomplish a doingness in the direction of a havingness."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

330. "The goal of man, here on this Earth , is apparently survival. And by "survival" is meant everything necessary to survival, including honor and morals and idealism and other things which make life bearable. A man survives as long as he can in one lifetime, at the highest level he can attain in activity and happiness. When he can no longer attain to some hope of this ideal, he succumbs."

-- L.Ron Hubbard

331. "The goal of suppressive people is, no matter how they behave, to make their target to prosper less and fail in life. The best way to deal with such situation and defeat such people is to flourish and prosper. If we flourish and prosper more and more, such people will stay in apathy about it, and may completely quit."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

332. "The God of humanity is the eternal power of love, the source of all being, whose image exists in the heart of the pure, whose nature is fire, whose rays are the light of Intelligence and the principle of immortal life"

-- Franz Hartmann, MD

333. "The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude."

-- William James

334. "The greatest gift that you could ever give to another is your own happiness, for when you are in a state of joy, happiness or appreciation, you are fully connected to the stream of pure, positive Source Energy that is truly who you are. And when you are in that state of connection, anything or anyone that you are holding as your object of attention, benefits from your attention."

-- Esther Hicks

335. "The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think."

-- David Icke

336. "The greatest victory in life is to rise above all the material things that we once valued most."

-- Muhammed Ali

337. "The highly sensitive is found hindered; and the highly eloquent seems muted. The history of the world is not the result of one cultural development. It is the result of mingling of cultures. The question is: will the West let cultures clash, a clash that will lead to new, and probably more severe, conflicts than we experienced in the era of the bipolar world; or are we going to let cultures intermingle?"

-- Hikmet Cetin

338. "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."

-- Alvin Toffler

339. "The key is to just do the best you can."

-- Jim Rhon

340. "The Kingdom will not come by watching for it. It will not be said, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Rather, the Father's kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people don't see it."

-- Gospel of Thomas

341. "The law of retribution presses upon every man, whether he thinks of it or not. It pursues him through all the courses of life, with a step that never falters nor tires, and with an eye that never sleeps. If it were not so, God's government would not be impartial; there would be no discrimination; no moral dominion; no light shed upon the mysteries of Providence. Whatsoever a man soweth, that, and not something else, shall he reap. That which we are doing, good or evil, grave or gay, that which we do today and shall do tomorrow; each thought, each feeling, each action, each event; every passing hour, every breathing moment; all are contributing to form the character according to which we are to be judged. Every particle of influence that goes to form that aggregate, our character, will, in that future scrutiny, be sifted out from the mass; and, particle by particle, with ages perhaps intervening, fall a distinct contribution to sum of our joys or woes. Thus every idle word and idle hour will give answer in the judgement. Let us take care, therefore, what we sow."

-- Albert Pike

342. "The laws of God are not obligatory on us because they are the enactments of His power, or the expression of His will; but because they express His infinite wisdom. They are not right because they are His laws, but His laws because they are right. From the equilibrium of infinite wisdom and infinite force, results perfect harmony, in physics and in the moral universe."

-- Albert Pike

343. "The mind is like a mirror, gathering dust while reflecting. It needs the gentle breeze of wisdom to brush away the dust of our illusions."

-- Helena Blavatsky

344. "The more you solve problems, the more they come in on you. If you refuse to confront the problem that you're faced with in life, you say, 'Well, that's there, but this is a solution to it' and then fixate on the solution, you see, this problem walks right in. Now, if one's attention is fixed on the solution, and he refuses to confront the actual problem, he gets a collapsed space. He's got to actually knock out this fixation on the solution and confront the problem. And when he does that, he gets more space and the thing goes away."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

345. "The nation is fortunate indeed that it has men with the genius to recognize approaching doom and the courage to speak out."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

346. "The objects of desire guide the senses. The senses supply information to the mind, and so influence what the mind thinks. The thoughts of the mind are ordered by the faculty of reason. And reason only operates successfully when it is guided by the soul."

-- Katha Upanishad

347. "The one that controls the hands, feet, voice and senses, turns the spirit inside himself, has a quiet soul and knows the holly books, as well as their meaning. That's a real monk."

-- Dashavaikalika Sutra

348. "The one who seeks is the one who reveals. That for which you are seeking is within you."

-- Jesus, In Dialogue of the Savior (150 CE)

349. "The only difference between work and play is consideration. If you consider you're working, you're working. If you consider you're playing, you're playing. If everybody around you considers that what you're doing is work, you'll eventually start to figure it out as work too, because that's the agreed-upon thing. If everyone around you decides that 'people should work, honest people work' and you're just playing, then you will eventually demonstrate to them, with a great deal of seam-at-brow, that what you're doing is really work. Therefore, you could say that something was a game or that something was an arduous, horrible, serious endeavor. You could say that this was a game or this was life, by which you might mean life is serious and a game is just play. If you were to define, however, life as a serious endeavor, you would then have to mean, then, that life was not a game, that it was work, that it was arduous and serious and that there was something wrong with it. Well, I'll tell you what is wrong with it. It is not a game anymore, it is life. You have taken this game called 'game' and you have changed its name to 'life.' And life had to be serious. And that's all the trick that has happened. You've still got a game."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

350. "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."

-- Socrates

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351. "The only thing you can't buy is life. Life only gets shorter. And it is pitiful to waste one's life to lose freedom."

-- Jose Munica

352. "The only way you could ever lose anything, was to get the idea that you couldn't create it again."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

353. "The path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."

-- Kevin Smith

354. "The people who "create change" are normally the owners, managers, and board of directors of farms and agribusinesses. The nature of their job requires that they look down the road, anticipate changing conditions, and then adjust and adapt their business as necessary. In effect, they are paid to live in the future. The reason so many people appear to resist change is because they are on a different time frame than those who create the changes."

-- Jim Henion

355. "The people will always mock at things easy to be misunderstood; it must needs have impostures. A spirit that loves wisdom and contemplates the truth close at hand, is forced to disguise it, to induce the multitudes to accept it. Fictions are necessary to the people, and the truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The truth must be kept a secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason."

-- Synesius

356. "The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

357. "The power of decision is actually the power of sanity. And just as you can run away and then become afraid, as well as become afraid and run away, so it can work that simply by being decisive, you come way up better. You just artificially get decisive. You come up better. If you just mercilessly search out of your life, in the actions and the common actions of your life, all of the maybes on a decision level, and if you suddenly assert your decisions where you have withheld decisions, I can guarantee you that your life will smooth out pretty well. If you do that in a big office, for instance, where there's a big staff, it may very well be that by asserting your decisions they fire you straight out the door. That's where you belong, then. You're a lot better off outside that door. If this environment has smothered your power of decision, you don't belong in it. Most of the indecision which you will meet in life is strictly based around choice of environment and the ability to exert decision in that environment."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

358. "The quality of your thinking directly affects the quality of people you attract into your life."

-- T. Kent Nelson

359. "The real problem is that we have accepted the notion that we should be treated like cattle."

-- Dr. Ron Paul

360. "The seeker with a broken heart must entrust himself to a superior instance, which will be recognized as such."

-- Gustav Meyrink

361. "The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity."

-- Carlos Castañeda

362. "The six most expensive words in business are: We've always done it that way."

-- Catherine DeVrye

363. "The solvent particles are courage, enjoyment and admiration."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

364. "The sphere of delusion may be educational, wherein one has been brought to believe that because one has studied for twelve years and has been given a license, one is capable of aiding his fellow human being. This would not be the product of individual delusion, but of social delusion."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

365. "The stimulus for the lobster to be able to grow is that it feels uncomfortable."

-- Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski

366. "The Suppressive Person must be right. He permits himself no honest self-examination (although you may see one adopt a sham self-criticism as a cover-up, while never changing in the slightest). He sees his actions as completely justified, however monstrous the effect produced on others. Many Suppressives, with their obsessive need to be right, project an aura of absolute certainty. Those of us who look to others for leadership and guidance often mistake this excessive self-assurance for true competence. This is why many people are willing to accept and follow the super-confident Suppressives who frequently achieve high positions in business and government.  The Suppressive Person aims at the incorrect target. He attacks people who have done nothing to him. He directs his energy to wrong endeavor. He blames the wrong thing. Every Suppressive I've known holds onto a grudge endlessly. He neither forgives nor forgets. His upsets do not heal. He cannot let go. Weeks, months, even years later he will complain bitterly about old insults, misfortunes and injustices (real or imagined). Some Suppressives live in dingy conditions, their furniture broken, their equipment inoperative. They may be surrounded by vast collections of junk, incomplete projects and unused materials. Disorder and squalor prevail. They belittle all spiritual pursuits and any attempts at self-betterment. They consider friends and family just "objects" to be used, shown off, and controlled. Their twisted sense of property is evident in totally materialistic values. To the Suppressive person there is no such thing as help. He construes any attempt to help him as a personal attack. Help for others is also threatening since regards everyone as his enemy and, of course he would rather keep his enemies weak. The Antisocial Personality may actually become ill if you try to assist him or her; he'll likely blame the sickness on your help. If you discover personal symptoms of roller coaster and suspect that there is a Suppressive person in your life, look for someone who has consistently worried or troubled you, someone close. It could be the father, mother, spouse, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, lovers, bosses, teachers, or friends. With family and loved ones it is understandably difficult to look beyond one's close emotional attachment, but here is where we often find the Suppressive person. Our emotional or financial dependence increases our vulnerability. The Antisocial Personality exhibits a majority of these negative characteristics: Deals mainly in bad news, gossip, critical and hostile remarks and invalidation; Associates roller-coaster, are often sick, intimidated and failing; Alters communication to worsen it when relaying it to others. Stops good news and magnifies bad; Tries to control everything, No-effect. Unchanging. Can't admit he's wrong; Rule breaker. Unethical. No conscience; Misdirected efforts. Blames the wrong things. Aims at the wrong target; Supports destructive solutions; attacks constructive activities; Speaks in broad generalities especially to relay rumors and news; Keeps things from getting done. Stops his own or others' actions. Holds grudges. Disregards property rights. Careless with own or others possessions. Often materialistic. Resists being helped. Seeks to destroy in the name of help."

-- Ruth Minshull

367. "The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci

368. "The transition of business from the regional and national level to the worldwide level, like the systematic development of technology, unless accompanied by parallel research in respect of the inner reality of man and the harmony of his personality, can only lead to regression through a return to an even more narrow positivism than that of Auguste Comte and Littre."

-- Dr. Henri Hartung

369. "The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him."

-- G.K. Chesterton

370. "The truly high is found below; and the truly fast seems slow. The two developments, individual and collective, are bound tightly together. One is unthinkable without the other as they both arise from each other."

-- Jan Van Rijckenborgh

371. "The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murders, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours."

-- Sigmund Freud

372. "The victorious army wins first and then seeks battle. The defeated army battles first and then seeks victory."

-- Sun Tzu

373. "The Western contemporary dogma that we're alone in the universe, related only to ourselves, is, in fact, a minority perspective, an anomaly. Through several seasons, men have reported their contacts with a multitude of gods, spirits, angels, fairies, demons, gnomes, vampires and sea monsters. Of all they said they came to teach, command, disturb or befriend humans with different provisions, motives and objectives. While many of these beings seemed to be home on earth, most of them came to visit us from other habitats or dimensions. The sky, in particular, has been chosen as the shelter of the non-human beings and has become the symbol of extra-terrestrial dimensionality, especially when, recently, the borders of the earth seemed to shrink."

-- John Edward Mack, MD

374. "The world has a way of trying to put people in their places but if you rise above that and if you fight the world, you become a part of this whole group of other people that fought back and took control of their lives."

-- Michelle Waterson

375. "The world today has been led to believe, by mental philosophies calculated to betray it, that when one is dead, it is all over and done with and one has no further responsibility for anything. It is highly doubtful if this is true. One inherits tomorrow what he died of yesterday."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

376. "There are no conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain hidden."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

377. "There are people who feel uncomfortable when they are in a certain group with a mixture of energy and emotions The human body is very similar to a plant that sucks, absorbs the energy needed to feed your emotional state, and can energize the cells and increase the amount of cortisol and catabolize, feed the cells depending on the emotional need. Humans can absorb and heal through other humans, animals, and any part of nature. That's why being around nature is often uplifting and energizing for so many people."

-- Olivia Bader-Lee, PhD

378. "There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful."

-- Fernando Pessoa

379. "There are threes classes of people: Those who see, those who see when shown, and those who do not see."

-- Leonardo Da Vinci

380. "There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."

-- John Lennon

381. "There are two kinds of people in the world; compassionate people and selfish people. Selfish people live on the dark side. The compassionate people live on the light side. And if you go to the side of the light, you will be happy, because compassion, helping other people, not thinking about yourself, thinking about others, that gives you a joy that you can't get any other way. But by being selfish, following your pleasures, always entertaining yourself with pleasure and buying things and doing stuff, you're always going to be unhappy. And the more you do it, the worse it gets. You finally get everything you want and you're miserable, because there's nothing at the end of that road. Whereas if you are compassionate, you get to the end of the road and you realize you have helped so many people."

-- George Lucas

382. "There are two stages in our financial life. In the first stage, man works for money. In the second stage, money works for man."

-- Rex Mendoza

383. "There are two types of thoughts in each one of us. One comes from the personality and the other from the universe or God. The thoughts coming from God are more simple and the ones of the personality more complicated. Any confusion is based on ignorance. The thoughts coming from God, although more simple, are of superior quality."

-- Samael Aun Weor

384. "There have always been men too great for their time or their people. Every people makes such men only its idols, as it is capable of comprehending. The laws of sympathy govern in this as they do in regard to men who are put at the head. We do not know, as yet, what qualifications the sheep insist on in a leader. With men who are too high intellectually, the mass have as little sympathy as they have with the stars. There is as little sympathy between the mass and the highest truths."

-- Albert Pike

385. "There is a battle of two wolves inside of us. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins is the one you feed."

-- Cherokee Proverb

386. "There is a direct relationship toward the amount of space embraced by the individual and the alertness, ability to move, ability to act, react, think, create and sanity. The amount of space he can occupy is tremendously important, so important that one could phrase the effort of low-toned people in trying to take space away from other people. Low-toned people try and take space away from other people. They're 'space hungry.'"

-- L. Ron Hubbard

387. "There is a misconception that Buddhism is a religion and that you worship Buddha. Buddhism is a practice, like Yoga. You can be a Christian and practice Buddhism. I met a Catholic priest who lives in a Buddhist Monastery in France. He told me that Buddhism makes him a better Christian. I love that."

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

388. "There is continual wandering in the wisest minds, and Truth writes her last words, not on clean tablets, but on the scrawl that Error has made and often mended."

-- Albert Pike

389. "There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

390. "There is no such thing as being too smart but there is such a thing as being too stupid."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

391. "There is no such thing as insanity. There are only varying levels of irresponsibility."

-- Thomas Szasz

392. "There is no such thing as standing still in life. The world around you will always be moving ahead, and by standing in one place you're choosing by default to be left behind. The commitment to lifelong learning is one of the wisest and most rewarding commitments you will ever make."

-- Bill Robbins

393. "There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

-- Alexander the Great

394. "There is only one way you will ever have a future: Make one."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

395. "There's always a way to to move on from anything, but too many times that purpose gets suppressed. It gets suppressed by society, suppressed by the educational system, suppressed by our careers, maybe crappy relationships with the wrong people, locked down into a nothingness. But what happens when you start to fix those things? You just have to have faith. Faith is believing in what you don't yet see. You can't expect immediate results. You have to build, and it's going to take a while, but you'll rise above the ashes. If you can hold out through the tough times, when things aren't going your way or things fall apart, things will get better. The hard times will shape you and make you better. You just have to keep pushing. Every problem has a solution. You can't give up when things get tough. That's when most people give up, but not the successful people."

-- Tai Lopez

396. "There were in the chaos, an infinite darkness in the abyss or bottomless depth, and water, and a subtle spirit intelligible in power. And there went out the holy light, and the elements were coagulated from the sand out of the moist substance. And all the gods distinguished the nature full of seeds. And when all things were interminated and unmade up, the light things were divided on high. And the heavy things were found upon the moist sand, all things being terminated or divided by fire. And being sustained or hung up by the spirit they were so carried, and the heaven was seen in seven circles."

-- Hermes Trismegistus

397. "There will be no security, if security is limited to a costly military defence against other nations, while at the same time, funds, energy and attention are not being diverted in sufficient amounts to there other looming problems. The need to go beyond a purely military definition of security, to enable ourselves to release funds, energy and resources to meet our common problems, to unlock our attentions towards other things is the main motivation. This should not be forgotten in the wilderness of military and strategic speculations."

-- Thorvald Stoltenberg

398. "There will never be enough paying jobs. 'Full employment' is meaningless to strive for. We should aim higher than working our lives away."

-- Vintervittra

399. "There's a big difference between the exoteric mystic with his sometimes unmistakable religiosity and the gnostic with his sometimes apparent hardness, which isn't hardness but simply means being objective and affectionate amid the turmoil of things, inconceivable for the man who can't comprehend."

-- Jan van Rijckenborgh

400. "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least."

-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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401. "Think truly and thy thoughts shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly and each word of thine shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly and thy live shall be a great and noble creed."

-- Horatio Bonar

402. "Those for whom only the external world matters, live in a dark night. Those for whom only the internal world is real, live in an even darker night. People in the first group lead a life solely of action; People in the second group lead a life solely of meditation. But those who combine action with meditation, cross the sea of death to the land of immortality."

-- Isa Upanishad

403. "Those that venerate the infinite, the transcendent manifesting that has all the powers of the harmonized souls, that find joy in the well-being of all creatures, reach for the truth, my true being."

-- Brahmaarya

404. "Those things upon which the individual is depending are those things which have a command value over him. That person who has most evaluated for the individual is that person whose viewpoint the individual is liable to have. We used to call this valence shifting. We can still call it that, but it's actually an enforcement of viewpoint."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

405. "Those who cling to the consciousness of self, discover one day that this will change their course and head them toward the past. Resigning and leaving the self-consciousness doesn't mean assuming a certain culture, reaching a certain course of action, being gentle, modest and quiet. No, this resignation represents an absolute change."

-- Jan Van Rijckenborgh

406. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

-- John F. Kennedy

407. "Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

-- Nietzsche

408. "Thought is a force, and philosophy should be an energy, finding its aim and its effects in the amelioration of mankind. The two great motors are Truth and Love. When all these Forces are combined, and guided by the Intellect, and regulated by the Rule of Right, and Justice, and of combined and systematic movement and effort, the great revolution prepared for by the ages will begin to march. The power of the Deity Himself is in equilibrium with His wisdom. Hence the only results are harmony."

-- Albert Pike

409. "Thoughts have power, thoughts are energy, and you can make your world or break it by your own thinking."

-- Susan Taylor

410. "Through beauty, the sensible man is led to form and thought; Through beauty, the spiritual man is led to matter and returned to the world of the senses. Only beauty makes the world happy, and each being forgets its limits while experiencing its spell." -- Schiller

411. "Time's memory is infallible. Nothing exists in time or space that is accidental. Everything is ordered by the Universal Will that does not err or neglect anything."

-- Mikhail Naimy

412. "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

-- Thomas Paine

413. "To be an anarchist and assume responsibility for yourself is a great idea. But socialists never will endorse the idea of you having your personal liberty."

-- Ron Paul

414. "To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful."

-- Carl Jung

415. "To cause things, one must be cause and the primary requisite of cause is a statement of intention and goal. Primary requisite to be cause is a clear statement of what you're trying to do. And only when you clearly state it, can you avoid being yourself an eventual effect. 'What am I trying to do?' If you can't answer that, you'll foul up."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

416. "To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."

-- Bruce Lee

417. "To make knowledge productive, we will have to learn to see both forest and tree. We will have to learn to connect."

-- Peter F. Drucker

418. "To perceive the Divine Light which alone can illuminate our spiritual darkness, and to hear the voice of the silence which alone can guide us, we must cultivate our spiritual eyes and ears. Prayer, true scientific prayer, is one of the most powerful and efficacious methods of finding favor before the face of our Father, and receiving the immersion in spiritual light which alchemically transforms."

-- Max Heindel

419. "To speak in a spiritual sense is like creating; to write is to fix the ephemeral aspect of a thought; to write with a spiritual meaning is to record something in the memory of eternity; to read means assimilating in yourself the meaning of what is written; and to read beyond the words is to recognize the great immutable laws that guide us towards love and harmony."

-- Gustav Meyrink

420. "True friends are like good books; they are a perpetual delight. The purpose of friendship is the acquisition of spiritual wisdom; friends support one another on the spiritual path. Friends know by intuition each other's feelings; when they smile at one another, their smiles come from their hearts. Ask your friends to correct you when you go wrong; and correct them when they go wrong. Ask your friends to share their sorrows and anxieties with you; and share your sorrows and anxieties with them. When you feel your clothes slipping, you swiftly reach out to hold them up; when friends are in need, go to their aid with equal speed. Do not make friends rashly, because you can never abandon a friend; if you make friends in haste, you will repent at leisure. Seek friends with the wisdom and the courage to correct you when you go astray."

-- Valluvar

421. "Truth of the matter is, the giving of something is a very high goal. You have to be in good shape to give things."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

422. "Two men wake up one morning and there's a rain storm on. One looks out his window, sees the rainstorm and and says 'Wow, what a storm! With weather like this they can't expect you to go out and make sales.' He stays home. Same morning, another guy looks out his window, sees the same storm, and says 'Wow, what a storm! With weather like this, what a great day to go out and make sales! Everybody will be home, especially the salesmen!'"

-- Jim Rohn

423 "Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication. Affinity, reality and communication form an interdependent triangle. It is easily discovered on some inspection that one cannot communicate in the absence of reality and affinity. Further, one cannot have a reality with something with which he cannot communicate and for which he feels no affinity. And similarly, one has no affinity for something on which he has no reality and on which he cannot communicate. Even more narrowly, one does not have affinity for those things on which he has no reality and which he cannot communicate upon, and one has no reality on things which he has no affinity for and cannot communicate upon, and one cannot communicate upon things which have no reality to him and for which he has no affinity."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

424. "Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."

-- Sigmund Freud

425. "Unless there is something to free Men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

426. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

-- Carl Jung

427. "Utopias are like horizons, the more we walk, the further they get. So why do we need utopias? For that, to keep walking."

-- Eduardo Galeano

428. "Warriors are not what you think of as warriors. The warrior is not someone who fights, because no one has the right to take another life. The warrior for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity."

-- Sitting Bull

429. "We are all broken. That's how the light gets in."

-- Ernest Hemingway

430. "We are both individual aspects of the Source, and full holographic representations of it, all at the same time. However, this does not mean that soul individuality is in itself an illusion. The principle of the hologram is that the part contains the whole, and yet is clearly distinguishable from it. This is what allows us to learn from our mistakes, and to grow as souls. So any next-life previews seen between lives merely represent major probabilities and lesser possibilities, and there is no karmic punishment or pre-destiny."

-- Ian Lawton

431. "We are multidimensional beings. The flow has to be unbroken from the highest level to the lowest level of duality."

-- Dr. Gabriel Cousens

432. "We are slaves to a mechanic. If someone pats our shoulder, we gladly smile; if someone slaps us, we respond in the same manner; if someone praises us, we feel happy, and if someone hurts us with aggressive words, we feel terribly offended. We are like small machines submitted to the Law of the Pendulum, in which anyone can make us do whatever they want. If people want to see us happy? They only have to give us a few pats on the shoulder and a couple of compliments to the hear, and we will feel enthusiastic. If they want to see us full of anger? They only need to tell us a word that hurts our pride, any harsh word, and they will also see us offended, angry. Quite so, the psyche of each one of us, in reality, is submitted to whatever others want. We are not owners of our own mental mechanics; anyone can drive our own mind, because we are in reality just puppets that anyone can control. And so, where is people's individuality? Well, they don't have it, if they don't own their own psychological processes. When a person is not owner of his own psychological processes, he can't say, as a fact, that he has an individuality."

-- Samael Aun Weor

433. "We can eat whatever we want if we are willing to pay the consequences."

-- Roger Bezanis

434. "We didn't and don't wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting."

-- Jacques De Molay

435. "We have come to a low level of the ability to work. Offices depend very often on no more than one or two men and the additional staffs seem to add only complexity to the activities of the scene. Countries move forward on the production of just a few factories. It is as though the world were being held together by a handful of desperate men who, by working themselves to death, may keep the rest of the world going."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

436. "We have done away with our fury and disorder, and this precipitation has cost us a painful defeat. But we are not used to losing. We were made to win. We must therefore carefully examine the skeletons, already dried up by the sun, of the warriors who perished. We must gather strength and lift ourselves with new and greater vigor, determined to take rematch of the enemy, imposing a resounding and conclusive defeat to him. If it is normal to mourn our dead and meditate on the great displeasure we feel, we must not forget to understand and fixate on the great lessons that disgrace teaches. Only then will we be able to raise our heads again with the energy of brave warriors who will not allow themselves to be at the mercy of the Romans."

-- Atila

437. "We have to articulate politics for equality with politics for identity. We have the right to be equal whenever differences made us inferior; We have the right to be different whenever equality uncharacterized us."

-- Boaventura De Sousa Santos

438. "We may already be in a post-information era. It is no longer the amount of knowledge one has or has access to, but one's ability to sort it and use it that counts, and in this society, the most valuable commodity is attention - the ability to command it and the willingness to give it."

-- Arno A. Penzias

439. "We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment."

-- Jim Rohn

440. "We must always seek the good which is hidden in everything. Being killed is a very different thing from dying."

-- Max Heindel

441. "We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned to have the life that is waiting for us."

-- Joseph Campbell

442. "We shall have the strength to stand fearless in the storms of vilification that come to all who attempt the path of unselfishness."

-- Max Heindel

443. "We're here on Earth only a few winters, and then we go to the spirit world. The spirit world is more real than most of us believe."

-- Floyd Red Crow

444. "We're not here to live a challenge-free life. Challenges come to activate latent capacities within us."

-- Michael Bernard Beckwith

445. "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing useful service."

-- Ray Kroc

446. "What comes to you is yours. What delays in coming is not worth waiting for. Let it do the waiting."

-- Mikhail Naimy

447. "What if our Earth is the hell of another planet?"

-- Aldous Huxley

448. "What is authoritarianism? It's 'Because I say so, it is true. Don't look.' That's its byword. Now, it constitutes a major breakthrough to cancel out one of the bugbears of philosophy, to break through the various cordons of resistance such as this thing: 'The authority says this is the case. Therefore, it is the case. Don't look.' The motto there could be, 'Obey; don't look.' And obviously we needed another approach, not the authoritarian approach. A psychiatrist once told me I could be arrested and thrown in jail if I did not follow the prescribed treatment in handling a psychotic case. But the prescribed treatment is killing them or injuring them and never making them well. Now, there's where the world of authority leads you. It leads you into total irrationality and psychosis. Authoritarianism is the invitation to madness. Many men have been burned at the stake for saying, 'I have looked and what you have said is not true.'"

-- L. Ron Hubbard

449. "What is justice? What is right? What is wrong? What is good behavior? What is bad behavior? There's many a person going around, the only thing that's wrong with them at all, that they conceive to be wrong with them, is that they can't quite figure out how it all ought to be. They see badness and viciousness and villainy on every side succeeding. They see this consistently. They see injustice, bought courts, they see perjury and false witnesses being rewarded on every hand. And something in them says that the only thing upon which this whole universe and all of us within it can possibly depend is truth. And truth, somehow, is decency and goodness and charity and mercy and kindness. They see this and yet all they see rewarded is viciousness. And they get this sort of a conundrum in their heads and they just say, 'I don't like it!'. The only thing that's wrong with them is, is they have lost so much of their own basic truth that they are no longer able to combat an untruth. And the only thing you have to do with them is let them recover some of their basic truth. Let them see that there is a reward for decency and kindness and justice and mercy and charity. Let them see that these things are basic. Let them see that communication is not bad, it's good. Let them see that decency, honor are extant."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

450. "What is truth to the philosopher, would not be truth, nor have the effect of truth, to the peasant. The religion of the many must necessarily be more incorrect than that of the refined and reflective few, not so much in its essence as in its forms, not so much in the spiritual idea which lies latent at the bottom of it, as the symbols and dogmas in which that idea is embodied. The truest religion would, in many points, not be comprehended by the ignorant, not consolatory to them, nor guiding and supporting for them. A perfectly pure faith, free from all extraneous admixtures, a system of noble theism and lofty morality, would find too little preparation for it in the common mind and heart."

-- Albert Pike

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451. What we are is God's gift to man; What we become is man's gift to God."

-- David Rockefeller

452. "What we call accident is but the adamantine chain of indissoluble connection between all created things."

-- Albert Pike

453. What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

-- John Lubbock

454. "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself."

-- Ludwig Van Beethoven

455. "What you can teach another person has no great consequences, and little or no significant influence has on behavior. The only thing one learns in order to significantly influence behavior is the result of a personal work of discovery, of something that is captured by the individual. This type of knowledge, discovered by the self, this truth that was captured and marked by personal experience, can't be communicated directly to another person."

-- Carl Rogers

456. "What you think and what you feel and what you manifest is always a match, every single time. No exception."

-- Esther Hicks

457. "When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness."

-- Jesus, In Gospel of Phillip (350 AD)

458. "When a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains be funneled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews are cut, and he has become what Homer calls 'a feeble fighter'."

-- Plato

459. "When a mind becomes mature, it understands that the germ of defeat is in every selfish thought."

-- Charles Haanel

460. "When a person, by his reprehensible behavior, practically cries out to be destroyed, it is truly your moral obligation to indulge them their wish. The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction."

-- Anton LaVey

461. "When a work of painting, music or other form attains two-way communication, it is truly art. One occasionally hears an artist being criticized on the basis that his work is too 'literal' or too 'common.' But one has rarely if ever heard any definition of 'literal' or 'common.' And there are many artists simply hung up on this, protesting it. Also, some avant-garde schools go completely over the cliff in avoiding anything 'literal' or 'common'--and indeed go completely out of communication! The return flow from the person viewing a work would be contribution. True art always elicits a contribution from those who view or hear or experience it. By contribution is meant 'adding to it.' An illustration is 'literal' in that it tells everything there is to know. Let us say the illustration is a picture of a tiger approaching a chained girl. It does not really matter how well the painting is executed, it remains an illustration and it is literal. But now let us take a small portion out of the scene and enlarge it. Let us take, say, the head of the tiger with its baleful eye and snarl. Suddenly we no longer have an illustration. It is no longer 'literal.' And the reason lies in the fact that the viewer can fit this expression into his own concepts, ideas or experience: he can supply the why of the snarl, he can compare the head to someone he knows. In short, he can contribute to the head. The skill with which the head is executed determines the degree of response. Because the viewer can contribute to the picture, it is art. In music, the hearer can contribute his own emotion or motion. And even if the music is only a single drum, if it elicits a contribution of emotion or motion, it is truly art."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

462. "When I was a homeless I felt privileged. A few times I met people from my previous social life and, when they looked at me, the look on their face was of horror. I tried to show them that I was very well, very happy, learning a lot, not at all bothered by it. And when they realized I was content, they would get upset, and then they disappeared, not wanting to ever cross ways with me again. Because rationally I was in a deplorable state but, when they saw happiness on my face, my enchantment with life, their intuition would manifest, 'wait, everything I believe is wrong'. Not wanting to violate their beliefs, not willing to risk, they would think 'I don't want to ever meet that guy again'. People violate their conscience to adapt to the demands of the world."

-- Eduardo Marinho

463. "When someone lies to you, it's because they don't respect you enough to be honest and they think you are too stupid to know the difference."

-- Luna Adriana Ardiansyah

464. "When superficially considered, the union of creature with creation seems of great beauty. Such is the perception in what regards a creature intimately united with its nature, covered by a veil perfectly adapted to such nature and that can be explained by this same nature. However, if we investigate the matter more carefully, we see that this beauty is only apparent and, in reality, such union reveals a prison. Because the spirit giving life to such nature and with which is identified, the same one operating this field of reality and its creatures, represents a perfectly elaborated disunion in a carefully elaborated world of contradictions. In this universe, everything leads towards individualization. And the individual, to conquer his goals, has to adapt himself to the laws that govern his time and space; laws based on loneliness, suffering, and a struggle between life and death. These laws, expression of the vital spirit of this nature, lead to a great curse and an unexplainable suffering. And yet, these are the laws that the vast masses, with all their theories and behaviors towards self-preservation, accept, while only a very small percentage of humanity desperately searches for an integration, seeking unification with God, order, peace, balance, and a greater harmony in this big house. And the true integration consists in existentially vanishing from this field, through an union with another living spirit and the development of another existence that can adapt itself to this other living spirit. Therefore, we, that wish to travel along this path, must start by saying goodbye to this big house in this world, and move towards the path of transformation and rebirth. Moreover, the natural state in which we are born cannot allow a rebirth. In fact, it will oppose it and try to stop us, to preserve itself. This is why, when we wish to abandon this nature, this same nature will fight us, through its creatures and creations. This becomes even more obvious when evident that we can't be stopped through electromagnetic forces."

-- Jan Van Rijckenborgh

465. "When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."

-- Malala Yousafzai

466. "When through meditation, we understand the profound meaning of what we have deposited in our memory, then such knowledge moves to the superior parts of our intellectual center. And if we gain more conscience, at the end, all our knowledge is absorbed by our emotional center, which is no longer intellectual. When the knowledge has become emotional, when it is deposited in the emotional center, it is finally absorbed in our conscience. And the knowledge that goes to our conscience is never lost, not even with the death of the physical body. Because when we return, we bring it in our conscience. But what we exclusively deposit in our memory, sooner or later is lost. That is why it is advisable that all knowledge is deposited in our conscience."

-- Samael Aun Weor

467. "When we choose to experience grief and choose to experience fear and anger, we will never act unlovingly again. But we have to experience it rather than avoiding it. Every time you avoid those emotions inside of yourself and avoid the responsibility of feeling them, then we project those outwards onto the universe and we damage other people in the universe. When we feel them inside of ourselves, then we can grow."

-- Alan John Miller

468. "When you begin to wake up, you go from trying to get to seeking to let, you're allowing your potential to escape."

-- Michael Bernard Beckwith

469. "When you fall asleep, your consciousness and your senses go to rest within the soul; the soul holds within itself the powers of life - speech, sight, hearing and thought. Then when you dream, your soul enters a world in which your deepest desires can be fulfilled; you can be a great king, or a wise priest, as you choose, and travel wherever you want. We conclude that, as threads come from a spider and sparks come from a fire, so from the soul come all the powers of life and all worlds; all existence springs from the soul. Thus the soul is truth; and to know the soul is to understand the mystery of God, who is the truth of truth."

-- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

470. "When you make a decision, you flip your brain onto a different frequency. You begin to attract whatever is on that frequency."

-- Bob Proctor

471. "When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there's usually less resistance within you than when you talk about what you want and how you're going to get it. When you pose questions you don't have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down."

-- Esther Hicks

472. "When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies. We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of all. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled nor enriched by hatred or revenge."

-- Robert F. Kennedy

473. "When you understand the meaning of renunciation, you learn to love. It is at this moment that happiness genuinely takes over your heart."

-- Bhagavad Gita

474. "When you're having a hard time making yourself do something, or when the action you offer does not produce the results you are seeking, it is always because you are offering thoughts in opposition to your desire."

-- Esther Hicks

475. "Whenever people get together and operate as groups, they make agreements, whether actually stated or not, regarding what is right and what is wrong, what is moral and what is immoral. In other words, what will be contributive to survival and what will be destructive of survival. This is a moral code - a series of agreements to which a person has subscribed to guarantee the survival of the group. It doesn't matter what the size of the group is - whether it is a group of two people forming a marriage or a whole nation being formed - they enter into certain agreements. When one or the other of the partners in a relationship or a marriage transgresses against the agreed-upon moral code, he or she often feels that he cannot tell the other about it. But these transgressions, unspoken but nevertheless transgressions, can gradually mount up and cause a disintegration of the relationship."

-- L.Ron Hubbard

476. "Where the heart runs, the mind chases. Where God goes, the heart follows."

-- Allama Prabhu

477. "Wherever a heart beats with love, wherever faith and reason utter their oracles, there is God, as formerly in the hearts of seers and prophets. No soil on earth is so holy as the good man's heart."

-- Albert Pike

478. "Who are we when comparing ourselves to the infinite, the galaxy in which we live, the millions of worlds that populate our never-ending space? Why feel self-importance?"

-- Samael Aun Weor

479. "Whoever is truly empathic will love wisdom above all else, because without love for wisdom it is impossible to attain a supreme understanding. The one who has acquired discernment in regards to what is the essence of the Whole, and has understood how, by whom and for whose sake everything is united on Earth, will give thanks to the Great Architect, who grants favors and faithfully protects. By confessing his gratitude, he will be empathic, and through empathy he will know where the Truth is and what it is; and due to this discernment, his inclination towards understanding will not stop growing."

-- Hermes Trismegistus

480. "Whoever plants the tree of perseverance, reaps the fruits of success and celebrates victory; he obtains what is desired and enjoys happiness. But if someone plants the tree of laziness and negligence, collects the fruits of failure. He won't get what is wanted and will be miserable. Perseverance has a bitter taste but gives sweet fruits, while laziness is sweet to the taste but gives bitter fruits and begets restlessness."

-- Hermes Trismegisto

481. "Why does life become serious? It becomes serious because one has too much unpredicted motion."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

482. "With God all things are possible."

-- Matthew 19:26, In The Bible

483. "Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was the utopians who traced the lines of the first city. Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future."

-- Anatole France

484. "Women control media and markets through their buying power. Who buys most of the books, fiction and non-fiction? Ever wonder how a book with a title like 'How to dump that jerk man' can be printed, but if a book titled 'How to understand female mood swings' were to hit the shelves, there would be protests and rioting? Because the book companies are in the business of making money, not publishing information and great truths. They do what they're paid to do by their customers. Women buy most of the books published each year. Consider books on romance. Romance generated $1.52 billion in sales in 2001, romance fiction comprising 18% of all books sold and 54% of all popular paperback fiction sold in North America. Of these readers, 93% were women, and half of them were married."

-- Carlos Xuma

485. "Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress; Working hard for something we love is called passion."

-- Simon Sinek

486. "Years ago, I thought that if I bought a Ferrari, it would make me very happy. It had been a dream and goal my entire life. So I finally bought one, and guess what? I was very happy. For about a month. And then I tried parking it, and I couldn't get out of the car because the door was so low that it hit the curb... and then I showed it to a friend, and they stopped paying attention to me and only talked about the car... and then I took it in for a tune-up, and it was five grands. Honestly, it sat in my garage and I drove it once a month. Fun? Sure. But ultimately I got rid of it, because it didn't make me happy. So the mind-set when designing the lifestyle, you want is to notice which environments inspire you to be your highest self, or to live more in your highest potential."

-- Eben Pagan

487. "Yes, the truth hurts; but not facing the truth hurts a lot more."

-- Alex Jones

488. "You are a spirit. You are your own soul. You are not mortal. You can be free."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

489. "You are a unique point of view that Cosmic Consciousness (All that Is) has of expressing itself in creation."

-- Anon I Mus

490. "You are amazing. I am so grateful to have you", are good compliments which show that a person recognizes your worth. "You're too good for me" is not a compliment. It's a red flag from someone who doesn't feel that they are good enough for you. For you to make sense in their world, they will begin to look for things that are wrong with you and point them out. This can be quite upsetting, as you'll go from someone who could do no wrong to someone who can do no right. Even the tiniest, most unimportant things will be criticized. Insecurity causes envy, spite, and being critical of others. You can't fix them, but you can avoid having your self-worth attacked by choosing not to pursue a relationship any further."

-- Doe Zantamata

491. "You are as alive as you can cause life. A machine is not alive, a reaction is not alive, reactivity is not alive, but is entirely parasitic upon life. So the life that you know, the life that you really experience, is analytical existence. So the entirety of human experience lies above the level of reactivity, otherwise it cannot be experienced."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

492. "You are never quite at home in this human world ever again after an exorcism," he said slowly. He sat down again and explained. After an exorcism the exorcist hears and sees and thinks and talks as he always did. But now he perceives on two planes. Spirit is everywhere. Flesh and matter is only "our picture" of what's there. And it's not all good. There's evil and good hidden in that "picture." After an exorcism you always know, if you didn't know it before. You are now walking with double vision, a second sight, as the old people used to say."

-- Malachi Martin

493. "You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen--the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives--I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves". Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman". I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks". Thus I became a madman. And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. But let me not be too proud of my safety. Even a thief in a jail is safe from another thief."

-- Khalil Gibran

494. "You can only be controlled if you are in fear."

-- Michael Bernard Beckwith

495. "You can only be controlled if you are in fear and you can only fear control if you're taught to fear it by the one trying to control you."

-- Robin Sacredfire

496. "You can use very light energy to accomplish enormous things. It is only with a very heavy energy that you can't accomplish anything."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

497. "You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."

-- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

498. "You did not come into this environment to create through action. Instead, your action is meant to be a way in which you enjoy what you have created through thought."

-- Esther Hicks

499. "You don't want your life to be disrupted but you prayed and you said you had a dream. You and God have to be on the same page; and if you're complaining every time God disrupts you, you're messing up the flow."

-- Eric Thomas

500. "You either get bitter or you get better. It's as simple as that. You either take what has been dealt to you and allow it to make you a better person, or you allow it to tear you down. The choice does not belong to fate. It belongs to you."

-- Josh Shipp

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501. "You got this lion. He's the king of the jungle. He's laying down under a tree, in the middle of Africa. He's so big; it's so hot. He doesn't wanna move. Now the little lions come, and start messing with him, they bite his tail, his ears, and he doesn't do anything. The lioness, she starts messing with him, coming over, making trouble, and still nothing. Now, the other animals, they notice this, and they start to move in. The jackals; hyenas; they're barking at him, laughing at him. They nip his toes, and eat the food that is in his domain. They do this, and they get closer, and closer, bolder and bolder, until one day, that lion gets up and tears the shit out of everybody. Runs like the wind and eats everything in his path. Because once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals, who he is."

-- Christopher Walken

502. "You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little." \- Napoleon Hill

503. "You occasionally have met some human being that you have said "Soul mate!". Every once in a blue moon you have suddenly run into somebody and have this feeling like you've met them before and you knew them. You find also this person has the power of irritating you far beyond any other human being's power of irritating you; or pleasing you far beyond the power of any other human being in pleasing you. And then there's the possibility that you knew him before. It isn't often that you meet the people that you know."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

504. "You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

-- Jalaluddin Rumi

505. "You're not an intelligent being created to just disappear after being used because then you could rightly speak of cruelty. Not, when you join the magnificent purpose for which you were created, as you can also reach eternity, despite your finite and mortal nature. Then, as Paul says: 'Death has been swallowed up in victory' (Corinthians 15:54)."

-- Jan Van Rijckenborgh

506. "You're here to dispense the divine gifts, not to get anything."

-- Michael Bernard Beckwith

507. "You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."

-- Malcolm X

508. "Your greatest ability is getting an idea."

-- L. Ron Hubbard

509. "Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

-- Jim Rohn

510. "Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth."

-- Kent Nelson

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