Excerpts of Citations
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The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth.
~Joseph Campbell
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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a rig...
~Marcus Aurelius
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The chances of our being here are not even to be thought of, yet here we are.
~Hugh Nibley
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I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand.
~Baruch Spinoza
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If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; i...
~Mevlana Rumi
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God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
~Mevlana Rumi
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It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
~Albert Einstein
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The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.
~Mevlana Rumi
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Everything--a horse, a vine--is created for some duty...For what task, then, were you yourself created?
A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.~Marcus Aurelius
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
~Gandhi
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We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
~Epictetus
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Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow...
~James Allen
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
~Stephen Covey
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The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
~Kahlil Gibran
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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
~Kahlil Gibran
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The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.
~Kahlil Gibran