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“Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
― Leonardo Da Vinci

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“While human ingenuity may devise various inventions to the same ends, it will never devise anything more beautiful, nor more simple, nor more to the purpose than nature does, because in her inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
― Hafiz

“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

“This sky where we live is no place to lose your wings so love, love, love.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

“The heart is a
The thousand-stringed instrument

That can only be tuned with
Love.”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī, The Gift

“what is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!”
― hafiz

“Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

“My dear,
Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering
Ram

Running all through the city,
Shouting so madly inside and out

About the ten thousand things
That do not matter?”
― شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Shams-al-Din Mohammad Hafez, The Subject Tonight Is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems Inspired by Hafiz

“Your heart and my heart
are very, very old friends.”
― Hafiz

“We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage,freedom and light!”
― Hafiz of Shiraz

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato

“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World

“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
― Plato

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”
― Plato

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

“Do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in few!”
― pythagoras

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”
― Pythagoras

“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”
― Pythagoras

“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.”
― Pythagoras

“No man is free who cannot control himself.”
― Pythagoras

“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
― Pythagoras

“. . . I feel we don’t really need scriptures. The entire life is an open book, a scripture. Read it. Learn while digging a pit or chopping some wood or cooking some food. If you can’t learn from your daily activities, how are you going to understand the scriptures? (233)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

“[O]ur own bodies are changing every second. Yet we take the body to be our Self; and, speaking in terms of it, we say, “I am hungry” or “I am lame”; “I am black” or “I am white.” These are all just the conditions of the body. We touch the truth when we say, “My body aches,” implying the body belongs to us and that therefore we are not that. (87)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

“If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don’t give it an opportunity to repeat itself. (67)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali

“If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali