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Quick, guess! Who’s green, has pointy ears, the skin of a Shar-Pei, got to live for 900 years, and like this speaks? Is it Kermit the Frog? Maybe Slimer? Or Gumby? You’ve missed on all three, because it’s the wisest green Grandmaster of Jedi - Yoda! Now, you might remember that we’ve already had an article on Star Wars quotes and jokes, but to miss out on the opportunity to dedicate one to the insightful humanoid alien Yoda would be a colossal blunder. Thus, we are presenting to you our top picks of wisdom that came straight out of the depths of only the most brilliant creature in an article dedicated solely to Yoda quotes!

While all Star Wars characters have had their moment to shine - even our beloved Wookie warrior Chewbacca, that is, if you understand Wookian - Yoda is by far the most enlightened of the bunch. And words he does not spare, whatever the topic - honor, life itself, more honor, a prophecy here and there - he encompasses everything there is to say in his jumbled speeches. Not to mention the fact that he was unbearably adorable in his babyhood, which makes his words fall straight into our hearts all the more. And it doesn’t even matter if you are a die-hard fan of the Star Wars franchise or just know the characters from memes; Yoda’s words are still as bright as those of world-renowned philosophers.

So, scroll right down you must, and check out the clever quotes you shall! After you are done reading and absorbing these gems of sensibility, vote for the Yoda-ism that is the genuine nugget of gold. Then, share this article with your friends, if you like, and see which of these intelligent quotes they would’ve picked as the best!  

#1

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

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    “Train yourself to let go of everything you are afraid to lose.”

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    Jef Bateman
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is pretty much Marcus Aurelius' Stoic philosophy. The Stoics would meditate on the things they love and practice letting them go. The point is to develop an attitude of placid acceptance and deep contentment.

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    #4

    "Of the moment, be. In the moment, live. The art of remaining in the present, learn. Neither the past nor the future exists."

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    Eagle Girl
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of something a physicist said " There is no present bc as I talk to you I am in the future & the past has left me"

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    #5

    “Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.”

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    Yoda talking “Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not.”

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    #7

    "Make the decision, make another. Remake one past, you cannot."

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    #8

    "A decision is yours alone to make. Yet remember you should that you make it also for the silent ones who stand at your shoulder."

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    #9

    Yoda holding lightsaber chopstick “On many long journeys have I gone. And waited, too, for others to return from journeys of their own. Some return; some are broken; some come back so different only their names remain.”

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    Amber The Great
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is anyone else reading these thinking, "which dang movie was THIS line in"? Just me?

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    #10

    “Clear, your mind must be, if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.”

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    #11

    "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will."

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    #12

    Yoda lying down on the ground with eyes open "So great life is, to finish it no way there is. The more you would enter into it, the vaster would be the possibilities that open their doors."

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    #13

    "To live halfheartedly, this is the most stupid thing in life. Forever gone is the moment that is gone."

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    James Figge
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I question this one I don't think I ever heard/read Yoda saying something was stupid

    #14

    "Close your mouth and open your ears, you must. Then hear what your true heart is seeking, you will."

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    #16

    “In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”

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    #17

    “Smaller in number are we, but larger in mind.”

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    Yoda holding lightsaber chopstick "Age more than a count of heartbeats is. Age is how many mistakes you have made."

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    Nathan Day
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That must mean Yoda made a lot of mistakes, that being said I heard something that said "a wise man doth learn from their mistakes, but an even wiser man doth learn from the mistakes of others."

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    #19

    "The best security lies in creating a society that nobody wishes to attack."

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    #20

    "Delicate flower truth is, but also the most precious treasure in life - because liberation it brings, freedom it brings."

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    #21

    Yoda smiling sincerely "Understanding is bliss, the cause of misery is misunderstanding."

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    #22

    “The greatest teacher failure is.”

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    #23

    "Your world you create, too, yourself you create. Things thoughts become. Burning inside you jealousy is, and poisoning you is anger; inside you greed is growing. And clouding your consciousness all these together are - destroying your individuality, your essential existence. "

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    #24

    Yoda standing with a walking stick "To your misery never pay too much attention, because if you pay attention, feeding it you are. Attention is food."

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    #25

    “Faith in your new apprentice, misplaced may be. As is your faith in the dark side of the Force.”

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    #26

    “Reckless he is. Matters are worse.”

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    #27

    Yoda talking “To be Jedi is to face the truth and choose. Give off light, or darkness, Padawan. Be a candle, or the night.”

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    #28

    “Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall.”

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    #29

    “Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will.”

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    #30

    Yoda sitting in the fields full of fog "Mind what you have learned. Save you it can."

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    #31

    "You fail because you don’t believe."

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    #32

    "Through enjoyment life grows. Joy is the sutra. Be joyful and grateful - whatsoever you have. The whole question is this: in the world, doing what are you? A participant in it, are you? Or a watcher?"

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    Ross Hershey
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yoda wasn't a Buddhist, so he would never mention the Sutra. Fake quote. Shame.

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    #33

    Baby Yoda staring at something "True to your freedom, remain. And arises in you, then, a totally different kind of being."

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    #34

    "This is what meditation is all about: absence of mentation. The mind is thinking no longer; silent it is."

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    #35

    “Decide you must, how to serve them best. If you leave now, help them you could; but you would destroy all for which they have fought, and suffered.”

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    #36

    Yoda talking with Luke Skywalker “A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.”

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    #37

    “Luminous beings are we… Not this crude matter.”

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    #38

    “In the end, cowards are those who follow the dark side.”

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    #39

    Yoda watching straight “Hard to see the dark side is.”

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    #40

    “If no mistake you have made, losing you are. A different game you should play.”

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    #41

    “Secret, shall I tell you? Grand Master of Jedi Order am I. Won this job in a raffle I did, think you? ‘How did you know, how did you know, Master Yoda?’ Master Yoda knows these things. His job it is.”

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    Yoda smilling “You think Yoda stops teaching, just because his student does not want to hear? A teacher Yoda is. Yoda teaches like drunkards drink...”

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    #43

    "A Jedi always sought to avoid a conflict. Infinitely more ways there are to reach a goal, Yoda had said many times. Try them all, you should."

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    #44

    "Share! Give! and given to you more will be. Be a miser, do not give, and less will be given to you, because need it you do not."

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    #45

    Yoda watching straight "For you to relax is all that is needed. At rest, be. And as it is accept the reality - a total 'yes', holding nothing back."

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    #46

    "Never step in the same river twice can you. Each time the river hurries on. Each time he that steps has changed."

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    #47

    "The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you."

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    #48

    Baby Yoda watching straight "Doubt in battle, there cannot be. Belief, there must be."

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    #49

    "If in anger you answer, then in shame you dwell."

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    #50

    "At the very source of your being you should be, where these three things you can feel: goodness, beauty and truth."

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    #51

    Baby Yoda eating “Put a shield on my saber I must.”

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    #52

    “Pain, suffering, and death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain”

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    #53

    “No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

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    #54

    Yoda looking thoughtful “Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away… To the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.”

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    #55

    “No longer certain, that one ever does win a war, I am. For in fighting the battles, the bloodshed, already lost we have. Yet, open to us a path remains. That unknown to the Sith is. Through this path, victory we may yet find. Not victory in the Clone Wars, but victory for all time.”

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    #56

    "When you look back, lose your place on the path, you do."

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    #57

    Yoda talking "Make a mission great, excitement does not."

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    #58

    "The dark side. Always it speaks to us, from our pain. Our grief. It connects our pain to all pain, our hurt to all hurt."

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    #59

    “Powerful you have become. The dark side I sense in you.”

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    #60

    Baby Yoda walking “Pass on what you have learned.”

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    #61

    “To answer power with power, the Jedi way this is not. In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.”

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    #62

    “When you look at the dark side, careful you must be. For the dark side looks back.”

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    #63

    Yoda talking “Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.”

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    #64

    "Silence is not simply calmness or quietude. Over all words and thoughts it implies transcendence. A state of beyond, a state of pervasive peace, it denotes."

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    #65

    "Always more questions than answers, there are."

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    #66

    Yoda talking "Each choice, the branch of a tree is: what looked like a decision, is after only a pattern of growth."

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    #67

    "Like reflections in the mirror thoughts are, clouds passing in the sky, but not the clouds the sky is. Desires, memories, imagination, they all come and go."

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    #68

    "Honor life by living. Killing honors only death: only the dark side."

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    #69

    Yoda sitting on a red coach and looking thoughtful "When your path is unsure, better to wait, it is."

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    #70

    "Concentrate on what I know is true while I wait for the mud to settle and the water to become clear."

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    #71

    "Of your ability, sure you are. Yet between sureness and pride, a small step it is."

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    #72

    Yoda sitting "Frivolous, speculation is, when patience will reveal all."

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    #73

    "Herenow is joy. And to be joyful only one thing one needs, and that is: be joyful. Nothing else, no other requirement."

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    #74

    "Deeper than your mind is your heart. Love is deeper than logic."

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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yoda would never suggest choosing attachments over logic. Fake quote.

    #75

    Yoda standing with a walking stick "This courage to enter into a new adventure - make you more alive it will. And to people who are more alive, happiness happens."

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    #76

    "Impatient never be."

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    #77

    "Each moment get out of the past, completely drop it. There it is no longer. Hang around, it does not. Of it be free."

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    #78

    Yoda holding a lightsaber chopstick "Doubt is a beautiful instrument, as far concerned as learning is; but not of any help doubt is in going beyond the mind. To go beyond the mind, you need trust."

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    #79

    “I have many children, as you seek you may find that this is the last one till he must die before he must reach the becoming of mankind. Many men have failed but I have surpassed their expectation of being a Jedi master.”

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    #80

    “And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you… Me… The tree… The rock… Everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!”

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    #81

    Yoda holding a lightsaber chopstick “Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”

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    #82

    “Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.”

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    #83

    “The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see, the future is.”

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    #84

    Yoda standing with a walking stick and talking “Your path you must decide.”

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    #85

    “When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good you will not.”

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    #86

    "Out of acceptance comes wisdom. Not an acquirement wisdom is, not knowledge wisdom is, not information. This quality of tremendous acceptance is wisdom."

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    #87

    Yoda fighting "So certain were you. Go back and closer you must look."

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    #88

    "Listening to music sometimes, a window opens and happy you are."

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    #89

    "Just disconnect. Once in a day sometime, sit silently and from all connections disconnect yourself."

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    #90

    Yoda talking "Better things than fighting, should a Jedi Master be doing! Seeking wisdom. Finding balance."

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    #91

    "To live totally fear allows you not, hold you back it always does."

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    #92

    "When all choices seem wrong, choose restraint."

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    #93

    Yoda watching straight "With time. With time all are healed."

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    #94

    "True mastery of a skill was only the beginning step to understanding it."

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    #95

    "Frivolous, speculation is, when patience will reveal all."

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    #96

    Baby Yoda looking through the glass "Poetic you become when in love you are. In love continuously are those people who are called poets."

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    #97

    "Poetic you become when in love you are. In love continuously are those people who are called poets."

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    #98

    "Whatsoever you have done is nothing in comparison to that which you can do. And nothing is whatsoever you can do in comparison with that which you are."

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    #99

    Yoda talking “If you end your training now — if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did — you will become an agent of evil.”

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    #100

    “Wrong? Hmm. A long time, fought I did. Consumed by fear, I was, though see it I did not.”

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    #101

    “Yes, afraid. Hmm, surprised are you? A challenge lifelong it is, not to bend fear into anger.”

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    #102

    Baby Yoda standing on a bench “I was not strong enough to defeat him. Like his master before him, be destroyed, he must.”

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    #103

    “A Jedi’s strength flows from the Force.”

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    #104

    “Wars not make one great.”

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    #105

    Baby Yoda watching straight “Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they.”

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    #106

    “You will find only what you bring in.”

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    #107

    “Control, control, you must learn control!”

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    #108

    Babby Yoda standing “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.”

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    #109

    "Too long sorrow makes a stone of the heart."

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    #110

    "Easy it becomes to be false in big things, if false you are in small ones."

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    #111

    Baby yoda holding his hand forward "Learn one thing in life you have to - not to cling."

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    #112

    "Of harmony happiness is a shadow, it follows harmony. No other way to be happy there is."

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    #113

    “Already know you that which you need.”

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    #114

    Baby Yoda sitting in a pot “Always with you, it cannot be done.”

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    #115

    “You must unlearn what you have learned.”

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    #116

    "Hmm. To a dark place this line of thought will carry us. Great care we must take."

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    #117

    Yoda lying down on a stone in the middle of the lake "If routine you count on, disappointed your hopes will be."

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    #118

    "By chance alone we do not live our lives."

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    #119

    "Even the blind seed grows to the light."

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