"Tears have cleansed my eyes, and errors have taught me the language of the hearts."
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"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love"
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"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem"
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"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility."
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"When you are born, your work is placed in your heart."
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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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"Wisdom is not in words; Wisdom is meaning within words."
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"Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky."
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"Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit."
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"We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without."
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"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path."
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"When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance."
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"Rest in reason. Move in Passion."
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"Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course."
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
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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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"A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear."
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"Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you."
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"Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you."
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"When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
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