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"True wisdom often comes from the experience of failure-not from success."

"It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course."

"The intelligent are candles, the virtuous are torches, the wise are lamps, and the enlightened are stars."

"Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life."

"To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
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"I get so concerned that someone will think I don't care about them that I don't even see they don't care about me."

"When you dream you go inside yourself, even though it makes you feel like you are traveling many miles and light years to go to the dream worlds. This is the irony of all of it. Everything lives within the heart of the dreamer. Your heart can take you everywhere. It's the world where we are still together. The heart is where you'll find me and anyone else you have ever loved with all your heart and all your soul."

"In a fraction of a moment we fall in love, we break up, we live out a love story that lasts until the end of time. We are soulmates, we are adversaries, we are everything. We are nothing. We are at our fullest potential of every possibility. We are supposed to cross paths for one reason or another. Sometimes we don't know the reason until it's far behind us."

"By loving the broken parts in you, I learn to love the broken parts in me. I learn that we are not broken after all."

"When a friend suddenly comes to mind for no apparent reason, he said it's because they are near to us in thought or spirit. He explained that a connection takes place on the thought waves that run between us. Thoughts are things that can reach out and touch us."

"I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?"

"Sometimes in life our master will teach us and then test us like this. He will send the same painful circumstances to us over and over again until we no longer want what isn't good for us, until he is sure that we have learned what we need to know so that he can move us on to new kinds of lessons and experience."
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