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• Just imagine you're four years old, and someone makes the following proposal: If you'll wait until after he runs an errand, you can have two marshmallows for a treat. If you can't wait until then, you can have only one--but you can have it right now. It is a challenge sure to try the soul of any four-year-old, a microcosm of the eternal battle between impulse and restraint, id and ego, desire and self-control, gratification and delay... There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their very nature, led to one or another impulse to act.

  ~ Daniel Goleman quotes from Emotional Intelligence; p. 80-81

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• Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

  ~ James Allen quotes

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• Never make your appeal to a man's better nature; he may not have one. Always make your appeal to his self-interest.

  ~ Lazarus Long quotes

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• Do not talk about your greatness; you are really, in essential nature, no great than those around you.

  ~ Wallace D. Wattles quotes from The Science of Being Great

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.

  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

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• The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and transformation of the human being. It is not personal Ananda, but the bringing down of the divine Ananda – Christ's kingdom of heaven, our Satyayuga – upon the earth.

  ~ Sri Aurobindo quotes

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• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

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• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  ~ Rollo May quotes

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• A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.

  ~ Vernon Howard quotes from The Power of Your Supermind

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