"You can be pitiful, or you can..." - Quote by Joyce Meyer
You can be pitiful, or you can be powerful, but you can't be both
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“The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.”
“We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.”
“I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.”
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“Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.”
“It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.”
“Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.”
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“Give a lecture to a thousand people.One walks out and says,I'm going to change my life." Another one walks out with a yawn and says,"I've heard all this before."Why is that? Why wouldn't both be affected the same way?Another mystery."”
“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
“Our attitudes cannot stop our feelings, but they can keep our feelings from stopping us.”