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• The man of wisdom is never in two minds about right and wrong; the man of benevolence never worries about the future; the man of courage is never afraid.

  ~ Confucius quotes from The Analects

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• A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

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• The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something it us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from Journey to Ixtlan

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• "The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain."

  ~ Carlos Castaneda quotes from A Separate Reality

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• Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? "What sinews are those?" -- A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.

  ~ Epictetus quotes

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• What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

  ~ Epictetus quotes

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• Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness…she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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• Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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• Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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• "The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live."

  ~ Seneca quotes from Letters from a Stoic

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