Sometimes it is more ...

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.
 Lin Yutang

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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I have done my best: that is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
 Lin Yutang
Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother
 Lin Yutang
I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.
 Lin Yutang
Of the many rights of ladies, the best should be to be considered a mother.
 Lin Yutang
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
 Lin Yutang