"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."

Wisdom, Love, Self-Worth, Trust, Integrity

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

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"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

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"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."

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"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

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"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

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"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."

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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

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"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."

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"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."

"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."

"Knowledge is your treasure. How well you spend and invest it will define your wisdom."

"Knowledge makes you powerful and proud wisdom makes you simple and humble."

"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."

"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."

"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."

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"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."

"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."

"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."

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