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Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Author object (313)

There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent. - Author object (313)

I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Author object (313)

A leader is best When people barely know he exists Of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, We did this ourselves. - Author object (313)

Water is the softest thing, yet it can penetrate mountains and earth. This shows clearly the principle of softness overcoming hardness. - Author object (313)

Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force. - Author object (313)

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. - Author object (313)

What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly. - Author object (313)

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. - Author object (313)

One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him. - Author object (313)

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - Author object (348)

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. - Author object (348)

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. - Author object (275)

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? ... A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief. - Author object (275)

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. - Author object (275)

A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die. - Author object (275)

I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. - Author object (275)

I am free and that is why I am lost. - Author object (275)

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. - Author object (275)

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. - Author object (275)