Rumi: Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps...

Quote	Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. Copy
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Quote: I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.
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Quote: Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: For where else is friendship found if not with fairness, reliability and respect for virtue only?
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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Aristotle
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Quote: To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.
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George Orwell
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Quote: In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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Aristotle
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Quote: Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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George Orwell
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Quote: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Aristotle
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Quote: Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him.
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Billy Graham
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Quote: Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Quote: He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: How is it possible to have a civil war?
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George Carlin
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Quote: Others have been plundered, indiscriminately, set upon, betrayed, beaten up, attacked with poison or with calumny – mention anything you like, it has happened to plenty of people.
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Marcus Aurelius
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Quote: I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it
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William Shakespeare
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Quote: Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.
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Voltaire
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Quote: Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.
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Aristotle
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Quote: White America is in the minority.
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Malcolm X
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Quote: Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.
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Quote: One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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Oscar Wilde
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Quote: Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.
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John Muir
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Quote: If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.
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Bruce Lee
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Quote: Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
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Stephen Hawking
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Quote: As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quote: I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
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Mother Teresa
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Quote: I am happy at the thought that the worst worries are over for my parents.
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