"I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself."

Growth, Suffering, Purification, Choice, Endurance

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"I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself."

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"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Tomorrow is the next step in life-not the next stop in life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Never despise a seed, one day it will rise and bloom into a forest."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Convert your knowledge into product."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."

Abdulazeez Henry Musa, Nigerian Author

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"I always thought youth were idealists - now, I'm not so sure - I'm more idealistic now then at 17..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"A shrub that bears fruit deserves to be watered more than a tree that does not."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"For a beautiful life, fill it with service and love."

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"Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session."

Friendship

"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Fear

"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."

Childhood

"That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence."

Philosophy

"In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings."

Life

"Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity..."

Mindfulness

"My only armor is my belief that life has meaning..."

Faith

"As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul."

Creativity

"Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled."

Love

"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."

Ethics