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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
— Khalil Gibran
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.”
— Khalil Gibran
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.”
— Khalil Gibran
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The past is a country from which we have all emigrated.”
— Patrick White
“If I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“Home is not where you are born, but where all your attempts to escape cease.”
— Nuruddin Farah
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
— Nuruddin Farah
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
— Frida Kahlo
“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
— Frida Kahlo
“To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to delude oneself is the romantic.”
— Patrick White
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
— Mother Teresa
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling
“Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now.”
— Viktor Frankl
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
— Robert M. Pirsig