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It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
by Akbar the Great (1542-1605)

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)

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Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
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This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
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- Lao Tzu

Where there's a will, there's a way.
- old English proverb

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He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
- Aristotle

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
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A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
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We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
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Unsolicited Advice Is Always Meddling.
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Majority rule only works if you're also
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because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
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Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
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No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Know thyself.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
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The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have.
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You never know what you're gonna get.
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
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See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Seek first to understand,
then to be understood.
- Stephen Covey

Life is a mirror, and will reflect back
to the thinker what he thinks into it.
- Ernest Holmes

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

What's done is done.
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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

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Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb

Life is not supposed to be fair.
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The world is perfect. It's a mess.
It has always been a mess.
We are not going to change it.
Our job is to straighten out our own lives.
- Joseph Campbell

Honor tradition AND question tradition.
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He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked,
in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
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The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
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We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
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Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
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You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

If you wait for opportunities to occur,
you will be one of the crowd.
- Edward de Bono

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
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Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
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What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
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When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
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The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
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There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie