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Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
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Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.
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When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
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If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
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I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
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Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
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Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.