"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."

Growth, Awakening, Realization, Life, Identity

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"I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck."

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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

Growth, Tomorrow, Step, Life, Journey

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Growth, Greatness, Empowerment, Life, Potential

"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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"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."

Writing, Excitement, First, Impossibility, Writer

"The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged."

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"You can't test courage cautiously."

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"It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution."

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"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."

Family, Children, World, Years

"The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart."

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"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

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"The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity."

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"Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written something. She must not have recognized it. Time to read everything again."

Love, Literature, Discovery, Emotion

"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them farther over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the rest, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. This is given. It is not learned."

Philosophy, Goodness, Evil, Humanity