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#1

“No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.”
― Voltaire

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“I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.”
― Voltaire, Socrates

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#3

“What I cannot love, I overlook.”
― Anais Nin

tags: forgiveness, love, sanity

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“I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: genuine-islam

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#6

“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

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#7

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

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#8

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer

tags: pain

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#9

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#10

“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."

[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]”
― Stephen W. Hawking

tags: appreciation, carpe-diem, expectations, gratitude, life, misfortunes, spirit, strength, unbreakable-spirit

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#11

“Whatever you appreciate and give thanks for will increase in your life.”
― Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

tags: gratitude

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#12

“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

tags: gratitude, love, suffering

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#13

“The more grateful we are, the more we practice this in our everyday lives, the more connected we become to the universe around us.”
― Stephen Richards

tags: author-stephen-richards, grateful, gratitude, universe

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#14

“Gratitude is a form of worship in its own right, as it implies the acceptance of a power greater than yourself.”
― Stephen Richards

tags: author-stephen-richards, gratitude

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#15

“If you want to know how to make people shun you and laugh at you behind your back and even despise you, here is the recipe: Never listen to anyone for long. Talk incessantly about yourself. If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don’t wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in the middle of a sentence.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Win Friends and Influence People

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#16

“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: evolution, knowledge, learning, sufi, sufis, sufism

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#17

“A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

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#18

“Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.”
― Dr Roopleen

tags: attitude, courage, determination, goals, inspiration, inspire, life, motivation, positive-thinking, quotes, self-confidence, self-esteem, success, willpower, wisdom

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#19

“To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: tao

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#20

“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

tags: discipline, self-mastery, will-power

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#21

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
― Epicurus

tags: desire, gratitude, hope

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#22

“The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”

“In prayer all are equal.”
― Rumi

tags: ego, equality, prayer

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#23

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.”
― Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam

tags: beginnings-and-endings, feeling, intuition, knowledge

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#24

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: education, schooling, university

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#25

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: comfort, loneliness, solitude, strength

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#26

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: faith, wisdom

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#27

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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#28

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

tags: life, love

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#29

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#30

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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