If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

- Edmund Burke

Awareness

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

- Edmund Burke

Balance

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. … Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

- Edmund Burke

Self-awareness

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

- Edmund Burke

Happiness

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

- Edmund Burke

Courage

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"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."

- Beauty and the Beast

Self-awareness

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

Self-awareness

"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."

- Laird Hamilton

Self-awareness

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

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