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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba

Live, Around, Values

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
Peter Marshall

Great, God, Blessing

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
Confucius

Government, May, Place

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Blessed, Mean

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Experience, Wisdom, Reflection

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.
Khalil Gibran

Grow, Grass, Zeal

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
Khalil Gibran

Someone, Until, Seen

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Same, Cloud

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, Gift, Except

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao Tzu

Strong, Nothing, Hard

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Khalil Gibran

Music, Work, Heart

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
Mark Caine

Success, Yourself, Find

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

True, Saying, Everything

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle

Greatest, Useful, Virtues

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

Find, Wrong, Injustice

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes

Long, Give, Enough

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Lie, Others, Lies

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Accept, Idea

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

Good, Art, Thought

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
Eminem

Successful, Everything, Succeed

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.
Khalil Gibran

Spring, Water, Avoid

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Wisdom, Mean, Reason

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Confucius

Revenge, Often, Boredom

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
Aristotle

Change, Time, Mind

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
Henry David Thoreau

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
Khalil Gibran

Human, Makes, Seem

I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity.
John Lennon

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle

Nature, Eyes, Soul

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