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“As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do”

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose works and ideas had a profound influence on the world. He was a renowned painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist, musician, and engineer. more

“No, a true seeker, one who truly wished to find, could accept no doctrine. But the man who has found what he sought, such a man could approve of every doctrine, each and every one, every path, every goal; nothing separated him any longer from all those thousands of others who lived in the eternal, who breathed the Divine.”

Men Found Goal Accepting Path Divine Eternal Doctrine Seekers Siddhartha

Book:Siddhartha

Source: Siddhartha

“Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.”

Ifs I Can Two Matter Lying Purpose Causes Steps Ten Draws Horizon Slips Retreat Utopia Steps Forward

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potentially moral units -- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust themselves anymore, and when that happens there is nothing left except perhaps to find some strong sure man, even though he may be wrong, and to dangle from his coattails.”

Thinking Men Giving May Happens Individual Left Strong Moral Doubt Dignity Valuable Trusted Units Coattails

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”

Moments Spiritual Blessing Quitting Hardship Dropping Listen To Me Being Sad Inspirational Sufi

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.”

Energy Sin

Author:Saint Augustine

“There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.”

Book:The Shaking of the Foundations

Source: The Shaking of the Foundations

“Where there is fear there is no religion.”

Religion Fear

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“The truth is the thing I invented so I could live.”

Truth Is History Of Love

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

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