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• "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

• "Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow."

• "Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."

• "You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."

• "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."

• "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."

• "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."

• "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

• "To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

• "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."

• "The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."

• "The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.."

• "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."

• "Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them."

• "Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."

• "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."

• "A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"

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