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Patience is the mother of will.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

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  3. If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the deb…
  4. Take the 'wisdom' of the East and the ''energy' of the West and then seek.
  5. Beware of someone who wants to teach you something.
  6. There are two struggles - inner-world struggle and outer-world struggle, but never can these two make contact, to make data for the third w…
  7. A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.
  8. Those who have not shown anything during their responsible life will have nothing to reap in the future.

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Topics in this quote

  • character
  • discipline
  • patience
  • strength
  • willpower

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