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“Ignorance shuts the mind’s door tight; wisdom swings it wide open.”

“A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.”

“When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.”

“Help when you can. Give what you have. Do what you must. Be who you ought to be.”

“If you were able to fall a hundred times as a child and rise, you are able to fall a thousand times as a grown up and soar.”

“If an opportunity comes dressed in trouble’s apparel, do not scorn it.”

“Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.”

“If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.”

“Ignorance is your opponent, fear is your enemy, vice is your adversary, virtue is your friend, and wisdom is your helper.”

“Conquer your vices. Exploit your virtues. Release your vices. Embrace your higher self.”

“Water is soft, but can maneuver any obstacle; be shrewd, and be gentle, and you too will be able to do likewise.”

“A book is the only vehicle that can take you around the world in one hour.”

“Don't run with the crowd; fly with the stars.”

“Don’t strive to be superior to others; strive to be better than you were yesterday.”

“In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life.”

“Love makes you the richest person in the world, no matter how poor you are.”

“If you have a house but no home, you are homeless; knowledge but no wisdom, you are imprudent; acquaintances but no friends, you are lonely; money but no happiness, you are poor; and life but no joy, you are lifeless.”

“You only judge the quality of your life in retrospect, needing the wisdom of hindsight to assign comparative value. By then it is too damned late, because the days have slipped through your fingers. All you have left are memories, which you may tell over and over like the beads of an old woman's rosary, but they are only beads after all.”

“A rock that perseveres under heat and pressure soon becomes a diamond.”

“When you hear love calling you, don’t pretend to be deaf.”

“A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.”

“Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.”

“A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves.”

“Life is temporal. Time is fleeting. God is permanent. Eternity is enduring.”

“You’re destined for greatness,” Life said. “But first, I’m going to make you cry.”

“If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone.”

“At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.”

“Enough pain will keep you humble. Enough grief will keep you compassionate. Enough trouble will keep you strong. Enough hardship will keep you grateful.”

“A sailor is not defined as much by how many seas he has sailed than by how many storms he has overcome.”

“As paint needs a canvass for its beauty to show, stars need darkness for their splendor to shine.”

“Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.”

“Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.”

“It is on the canvass of the darkest storms that the brightest rainbows are painted.”

“If you want to be strong, exercise; if you want to be wise, study; if you want to be happy, smile; and if you want to be invincible, love.”

“It is impossible for light to bow before darkness.”