"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."

Angelou, Maya on Defeat
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"Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations."

Angelou, Maya on Education
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"Life loves the liver of it."

Angelou, Maya on Life and Living
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"If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers."

Angelou, Maya on Smile
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on Action
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"The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind."

Angelou, Maya on Change
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Decisions
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"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

Eckhart, Meister on Knowledge
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

Eckhart, Meister on God
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"To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God."

Eckhart, Meister on God
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"The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God."

Eckhart, Meister on God
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"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Difficulties
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Education
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Enthusiasm
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"Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Enthusiasm
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"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Enthusiasm
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"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

Francis De Sales, St. on Action
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"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud."

Hesse, Hermann on Speech
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"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Talkativeness
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"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on Perseverance
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"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Doren, Mark Van on Teachers and Teaching
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on Music
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"Greatness is a spiritual condition."

Arnold, Matthew on Greatness
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"The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one."

Peck, M. Scott on Learning
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"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on Spirit and Spirituality
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on Humankind
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on Silence
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"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on Learning
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"There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."

Carlyle, Thomas on Proverbs
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"A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom."

Russell, John on Proverbs
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"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]"

Bible on Character
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"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent."

Blanton, Smiley on Happiness
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"Every animal knows more than you do."

Proverb, Native American on Knowledge
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"The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."

Bacon, Francis on Proverbs
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"Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."

Proverb, Native American on Judgment and Judges
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"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Proverb, Native American on Ecology
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on Enjoyment
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"Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment."

Powell, Adam Clayton on Freedom
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