Wishing for a thing does not make it so.

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"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness: that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

Awareness

"Even the most comfortable prison is still a prison."

- Jean-Luc Picard

Awareness

"When children learn to devalue others, they can devalue anyone - including their parents."

- Jean-Luc Picard

Awareness

"The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think."

- Jean-Luc Picard

Awareness

"When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like… like old leather. And finally… becomes so familiar that one can’t ever remember feeling any other way."

- Jean-Luc Picard

Self-awareness

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"It is not what you look like on the outside, but what you are on the inside that counts."

- Beauty and the Beast

Belief

"It is the heart that makes a person beautiful, not the outward appearance."

- Beauty and the Beast

Belief

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

- Buddha

Belief

"It’s not always possible to do what we want to do, but it’s important to believe in something before you actually do it."

- Might Guy

Belief

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

- Josephus Daniels

Belief