The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

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If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

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If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

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I have spent a fortune travelling to distant shores and looked at lofty mountains and boundless oceans, and yet I haven’t found time to take a few steps from my house to look at a single dewdrop on a single blade of grass.

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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

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You cannot cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. ― Rabindranath Tagore

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