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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
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"Those who speak much are blamed, those who speak little are blamed. In this world there are none who are not blamed. Try not to blame."

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Frances Wright Abolitionist, Social Reformer
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"We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"There is a paradise of form and colors in the world. And because you have eyes still in good condition, you can get in touch with the paradise. So when I become aware of my eyes, I touch one of the conditions of happiness. And when I touch it, happiness comes."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world."

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Nhat Hanh Zen Master, Author
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"We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"When you find an unwillingness to rise early in the morning, make this short speech to yourself: I am getting up now to do the business of a man; and am I out of humour for going about that I was made for, and for the sake of which I was sent into the world? Was I then designed for nothing but to doze and keep warm beneath the counterpane? Well! but this is a comfortable way of living."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new."

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Marcus Aurelius Philosopher, Emperor
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"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'"

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