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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“The world is imprisoned in its own activity, except when actions are performed as worship of God.”
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher.”
“Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.”
“Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.”
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
“When the world says 'give up,' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'”
“The only limit to achieving your dream is your own belief.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“Know thyself and thou shalt know all the mysteries of the gods and of the universe.”
“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.”
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
“Whatever affliction may visit you is for what your own hands have earned; and for many He grants forgiveness.”
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.”
“The harder you work for something, the greater you'll feel when you achieve it.”
“Those who are once found to be bad are presumed so forever.”
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
“Better a handful of dried dates and content therewith than to own the Gate of Peacocks and be kicked in the eye by a broody camel.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“The net of the sleeper catches fish.”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
“When sleeping women wake, mountains move.”
“One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.”
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
“All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.”
“The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Dream without fear. Work without limits.”
“The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.”
“Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but you can't buy that inch of time with an inch of gold.”
“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”
“The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.”
“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“Every day is a new opportunity to change your life.”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.”
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home.”
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
“Peace begins with a smile.”
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
“Don't wait for opportunity. Create it.”
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.”
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.”
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.”
“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”
“Harm watch, harm catch.”
“Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.”
“Dream, believe, achieve.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
“Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“He who digs a pit for others falls in himself.”
“Work while they sleep. Learn while they party. Save while they spend. Live like they dream.”
“What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked God for yesterday.”
“The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.”
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.”
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves — slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
“Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.”
“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.”
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
“He that would the daughter win, must with the mother first begin.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.”
“Put your trust in God, but keep your camel tied.”
“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony.”
“The wise man changes his mind; the fool never will.”
“Mystery is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy.”
“Don't limit your dreams. The world is big and your dreams should be bigger.”
“Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.”
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
“O you who believe! Eat of the good things that We have provided for you, and be grateful to God, if it is Him that you worship.”
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.”
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.”
“To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.”
“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
“I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; but I never have yet felt a tinge of regret for being a little too kind.”
“When you drink the water, remember the spring.”
“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.”
“Work hard, dream big.”
“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.”
“Better to be kind at home than to burn incense in a far place.”
“In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“He who is contented is rich.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
“In time of test, family is best.”
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough.”
“Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
“The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.”
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury — to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone.”
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.”
“Hopeful determination is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.”
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.”
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
“Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.”
“Dreams become reality when intentions turn into actions.”
“Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.”
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.”
“When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.”
“An inch of time is an inch of gold, but an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.”
“If you feel a burning desire within you, it is because you were meant to follow it.”
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.”
“Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.”
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
“Not in the sky, not in the midst of the sea, not by entering the clefts of mountains, is there known a spot in the whole world where one may be free from the consequences of an evil deed.”
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
“Success is not just about making money. It's about making a difference.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“Don't dream your life, live your dreams.”
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
“Not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, nor in a mountain cave, is found that place on earth where abiding one may escape from the consequences of one's evil deed.”
“Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them.”
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
“Our passions are the winds that propel our vessel. Our reason is the pilot that steers her. Without winds the vessel would not move and without a pilot she would be lost.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.”
“Wabi-sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of all true art and science.”
“When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.”
“Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.”
“Know thyself and thou shalt know the universe and the gods.”
“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”
“Success isn't just about making money. It's about making a difference.”
“What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place?”
“Do not be afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.”
“Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
“Love is not about how many days, weeks or months you’ve been together, it’s all about how much you love each other every day.”
“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.”
“In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exists, there must also be losers.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“Do not be deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.”
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar sharpens scholar.”
“To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay, right or justice.”
“Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God.”
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
“The lotus grows in muddy water, yet rises above the surface to bloom with remarkable beauty.”
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”
“Those who act kindly in this world will have kindness.”
“Do not be afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world around you, beginning with your own heart.”
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”
“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?”
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
“It's not enough to have a dream, unless you're willing to pursue it.”
“A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and a life of purpose begins with a single honest thought.”
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”
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