"Like the bee gathering honey from the different flowers, the wise person accepts the essence of the different scriptures and sees only the good in all religions."
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"The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing."
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"I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around."
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"It’s in our interest to take care of others. Self-centrednes s is opposed to basic human nature. In our own interest as human beings we need to pay attention to our inner values. Sometimes people think compassion is only of help to others, while we get no benefit. This is a mistake. When you concern yourself with others, you naturally develop a sense of self-confidence . To help others takes courage and inner strength."
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"The problem with the wise is they are so filled with doubts while the dull are so certain."
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"The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
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"It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy."
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"May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future."
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"But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God."
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"It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life."
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"Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome."
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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."
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"Nature will not let us stay in any one place for too long. She will let us stay just long enough to gather the experience necessary to the unfolding and advancement of the soul. This is a wise provision, for should we stay there too long, we would become too set, too rigid, too inflexible. Nature demands change in order that we may advance."
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"The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens."
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"For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one."
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"What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance."
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"I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind."
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"The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I’m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can’t quite remember."
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"We think of our land and water and human resources not as static and sterile possessions but as life giving assets to be directed by wise provisions for future days."
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"A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces."
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