What a distressing contrast ...

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

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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
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.
My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.