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"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."
"It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions."
"One longs and longs to be grown up, doesn't one?,' she said, 'I dreamed of being eighteen and having a Season and meeting handsome gentlemen even apart from Dominic and falling in love with them and marrying him and living happily ever after. But life is not nearly as that simple when one finally does grow up."
"Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives."
"When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things."
"Deeds need time, even after they are done, in order to be seen or heard."
Explore more quotes by Idries Shah
"Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied."
"One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time."
"From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information."
"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."
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