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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

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"The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God."

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"Humility and full consciousness are inseparable."

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"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."

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"As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive."

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"No one's life will be harder because I exist."

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"Nothing will be attained from actions of hundreds of thousands of lives. Moksha (liberation) is attained through 'absolute humility' (param vinaya). The 'gates of understanding' are opened with 'absolute humility'. 'Absolute humility' arises only when the ego is dissolved."

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"We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion."

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"The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."

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"The light in your soul can illuminate any darkness."

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"I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom."

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."
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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
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"The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn."
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"I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late."
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"Love prefers twilight to daylight."
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"Don't be consistent but be simply true."
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"Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion."
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"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
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