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"A bird in a nest is secure, but that is not why God gave it wings."
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"You win minds through your brilliance. You win hearts through your tenderness. You win souls through your benevolence."
"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"There comes a time in our life when we make ourselves a prisoner, we have to do everything possible to break ourselves free."
"Education means breaking free from the manacles of limitations put forward by primitive ignorance."
"It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today's modern slavery."
"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
"He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the storyShe snorted."But I forgot to tell him, I said too quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."Oh?I shrugged, "He was the one who let me out."
"A bird cannot love freely when caged."
"Grace of the Gnani' [the enlightened one] will take you to moksha [ultimate liberation] and 'Grace of God' will give you worldly happiness. God will not take you to moksha, because God cannot be realized without a 'Gnani' [the enlightened one], can he? He remains hidden."
"Vitragta [a state of freedom from all worldly attachments] is the only way to 'swim' across lifetimes."
"When does one qualify (for moksha)? It is when he never has any conflict in the worldly life."
"Do we all repeat the same words in our heads in the days after experiencing abuse at the hands of those who love us? "From this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, until death do us part."Maybe those vows weren't meant to be taken as literally as some spouses take them. For better, for worse?Fuck. That. Shit."
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