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If there is no reward, there is no reason to run
If you think you can't, you're wrong and right
True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave
Calm is the best revenge
You are what you believe
You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there
People think that whatever comes out of the mouth of a wise man is the choicest gem, sometime it's utter stupidity and rubbish
Do not despise the water droplets that you receive, soon it will be a river.
Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.
Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.
They say faith is taking the first step when you can__ see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.
One of the characters in our story, Gavril Ardalionovitch Ivolgin, belonged to the other category; he belonged to the category of "much cleverer" people; though head to toe he was infected with the desire to be original. But this class of person, as we have observed above, is far less happy than the first. The difficulty is that the intelligent "ordinary" man, even if he does imagine himself at times (and perhaps all his life) a person of genius and originality, nevertheless retains within his heart a little worm of doubt, which sometimes leads the intelligent man in the end to absolute despair. If he does yield in this belief, he is still completely poisoned with inward-driven vanity.
Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.