"Patience is the companion of wisdom."

Wisdom, Patience

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously."

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"Your time is the life you have at a particular moment."

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"Some persons can't accept the truth, due to their inability to let go of their own perceptions."

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"When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'."

Epictetus, Greek Philosopher

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"Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do."

Roy T. Bennett, American Author

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"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."

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"Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."

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"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."

Psychology

"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."

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"It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds."

Literature

"Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing."

Mindset

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell."

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"To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement."

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