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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather."

Luther, Martin on wisdom    Share

"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom."

Iles, George on doubt
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep - pain that cannot forget; Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus on god
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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

Buddha on meditation
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"Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom."

Proverb, Chinese on wisdom
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"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."

Erikson, Erik H. on hope
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on desperation
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"The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation."

Cotrell, Comer on inspiration    Share

"Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back."

Henley, Don on hope
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on adversity
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"Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity."

Mandino, Og on adversity
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"Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great."

Pliny The Elder on adversity    Share

"Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I."

Kabir on art
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