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Rumi (1207-1273) Persian, Muslim poet and theologian
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"When we practice loving kindness and compassion, we are the first ones to profit." Rumi (1207-1273) A Persian, Muslim poet and theologian.

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches you by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly - not one."--Rumi

"When you come looking for sugar,
your bag will be examined
to see how much it can hold;
it will be filled accordingly."--Rumi

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"--Rumi

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"--Rumi
    
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."--Rumi

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."--Rumi

"Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."--Rumi

"I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think."--Rumi

"And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with love like that.
It lights up the sky."--Rumi

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."--Rumi

"But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms
around you."--Rumi  

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."--Rumi

"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."--Unknown

"Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes."--Mark Amend

"Don't carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones."--Unknown

Mahatma Ghandi, 1906
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"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."--Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments With Truth

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."--Gandhi

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."--Ghandi
   

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."--Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."--Gandhi

"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."--Gandhi 

"Seven Deadly Sins

Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Science without humanity
Knowledge without character
Politics without principle
Commerce without morality
Worship without sacrifice."--Gandhi

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."--Gandhi

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."--Gandhi

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."--Gandhi 

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."--Gandhi

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."--Gandhi 

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."--Gandhi

"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.'--Gandhi 

"There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."--Gandhi

"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results."--Gandhi   

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."--Gandhi, Young India, Volume 1, Issue 52, 1919

"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."--Gandhi

"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."--Gandhi

"What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you."--Gandhi 

"A No uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a Yes uttered to please,or worse, to avoid trouble."--Gandhi

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."--Oscar Wilde, Lady Winermere's Fan

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."--Oscar Wilde

"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."--Oscar Wilde

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."--Oscar Wilde

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."--Maya Angelou, American poet, author, educator, civil rights activist, actor and filmmaker (1928-).

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mit on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."--Maya Angelou

"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."--Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it."--Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou
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"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise."--Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."--Maya Angelou

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."--Maya Angelou

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope."--Maya Angelou

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."--Maya Angelou

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it."--Maya Angelou 

"The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."--Maya Angelou

"If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things."--Sun Tzu

“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare."--Sun Tzu, The Art of War 

"When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders."--Sun Tzu

"You have to believe in yourself."--Sun Tzu

"Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust."--Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Know yourself and you will win all battles”--Sun Tzu

"A leader leads by example, not by force."--Sun Tzu

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."--Sun Tzu, The Art of War

   

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,

Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”

― William W. Purkey

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

"“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”--Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”--Albert Einstein

   

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”--Bil Keane

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”--Thomas A. Edison

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”--George Eliot

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”--G.K. Chesterton

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

― Mother Teresa

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
― Mother Teresa

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”--Mother Teresa

   

“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you live?
How deeply did you let go?”― Siddhārtha Gautama

“May you live every day of your life.”― Jonathan Swift

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”― Shel Silverstein   

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”― L.M. Montgomery

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”― Emily Dickinson

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”― St. Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong." 
― Sarah Dessen

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

"Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly."― Langston Hughes

"The past has no power over the present moment."― Eckhart Tolle

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control."― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

"Don't let the bastards grind you down."― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."― Mary Kay Ash

"If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway…
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway."― Kent M. Keith

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”― Walt Disney Company

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring