"Education is not received. It is achieved."

Unknown, Source on education
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last ounce of courage, to reach the unreachable star."

Darion, Joe on dream
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"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

Francis De Sales, St. on anger
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."

Franklin, Benjamin on wives
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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

Cato The Elder on anger
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"Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on curses   

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

Confucius on character
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"What the superior person seeks is in themselves. What the mean person seeks is in others."

Confucius on superiority
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"Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change."

Confucius on change
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"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right."

Confucius on change
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."

Gandhi, Mahatma on friends and friendship
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"There are limits to self-indulgence, none to restraint."

Gandhi, Mahatma on restraint
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."

Sand, George on death
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"It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation."

Robertson, Frederick W. on circumstance
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?"

Confucius on science
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on love
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."

Confucius on perception
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on right and rightness
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own."

Confucius on war
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi, Mahatma on country
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"Fear has its use but cowardice has none."

Gandhi, Mahatma on war
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

Gandhi, Mahatma on violence
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on dream
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