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«Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.»
«I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.»
«Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.»
«Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.»
«Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.»
«A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.»
«The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.»
«Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.»
«Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.»
«There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.»

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