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Look at all of your knowledge as a gift, as a means of helping other people. A strong and wise person uses his gifts to support other people. —JOHN RUSKIN

If truth makes our life easier, then it is better to accept the truth than to hide from it. Our life can be changed, but the truth cannot be changed: it will always remain the truth, and it will expose us. —Tolstoy

Do not wish for death just because your life is hard. All the burdens on your shoulders will help you fulfill your destiny. The only way to get rid of your burdens is to live your life in such a way that you fulfill your destiny. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Live your life in such a way that you neither hide nor have a wish to display your life to people. —Tolstoy

If you want to correct your failings, you do not have the time to waste in blaming other people. —Tolstoy

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only one thing: you can become better yourself. —Tolstoy

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. —Rousseau