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Wisdom about self-worth & confidence.
What people have learned about self-worth & confidence the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Those three methods (of government) Thought olden ways in elegance did fail And made these names their want of worth to veil; But simple views, and courses plain and true Would selfish ends and many lusts eschew.
The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
Music and dainties will make the passing guest stop (for a time). But though the Tao as it comes from the mouth, seems insipid and has no flavour, though it seems not worth being looked at or listened to, the use of it is inexhaustible.