"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."

Newton, Sir Isaac on work
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism have brought me to my ideas."

Einstein, Albert on endurance
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"In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny."

Einstein, Albert on government
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"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

Einstein, Albert on art
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons."

Bhagavad Gita on appearance
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"Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature."

Bhagavad Gita on army and navy
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"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."

Bhagavad Gita on mediation
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"Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation."

Bhagavad Gita on meditation
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"Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart."

Bhagavad Gita on meditation
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"He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion."

Bhagavad Gita on mind
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"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

Bhagavad Gita on knowledge
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"That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me -- with such a one I am in love."

Bhagavad Gita on hatred
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"For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death."

Bhagavad Gita on honor
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"Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy."

Bhagavad Gita on gratitude
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"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear."

Bhagavad Gita on failure
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"Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts."

Bhagavad Gita on doubt
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"It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know."

Bergethon, R. K. on knowledge   

"Man knows more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on knowledge
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"I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them."

Bhagavad Gita on nature
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"The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path."

Bhagavad Gita on obstacles
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"Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self."

Bhagavad Gita on patience
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"But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me."

Bhagavad Gita on consciousness
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"It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger."

Bhagavad Gita on anger
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"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable."

Bhagavad Gita on death
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"What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men."

Bhagavad Gita on work
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"Action should culminate in wisdom."

Bhagavad Gita on wisdom
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"There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes."

Bhagavad Gita on change
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"The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable."

Bhagavad Gita on body
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"Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature."

Bhagavad Gita on action
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"O Krishna, the stillness of divine union which you describe is beyond my comprehension. How can the mind, which is so restless, attain lasting peace? Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, powerful, violent; trying to control it is like trying to tame the wind."

Bhagavad Gita on spirituality
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"Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below."

Bhagavad Gita on spirituality
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"Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by rain; rain itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service."

Bhagavad Gita on service
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"As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within."

Bhagavad Gita on self discovery
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"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita on reality
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"Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do."

Bhagavad Gita on attachment
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"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

Lessing, Doris on borrowing   

"Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more."

Burleigh, Lord on borrowing