"Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you."
"It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes."
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Source: Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1961). “The pilgrimage of eternity: being an English translation of Muhammad Iqbal's Javid nama by Shaikh Mahmud Ahmad. With a foreword by S. A. Rahman”
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