If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

Courage

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

Compassion

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

Leadership

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

Leadership

"To lead people, walk beside them."

- Lao Tzu

Leadership

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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

- Henry David Thoreau

Mindfulness

"Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince."

- Anon

Mindfulness

"You have to think it before you can do it. The mind is what makes it all possible."

- Kai Greene

Mindfulness

"Your mind is the key to your body’s strength."

- Unknown

Mindfulness

"Your limits are all in your mind."

- Unknown

Mindfulness