We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ― Plato

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Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they’re nice, but because you are. – Roy T. Bennett

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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ― Salvador Dali

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To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. ― Alan Wilson Watts

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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

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Compassion in action may be the glorious possibility that could protect our crowded, polluted planet.

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Happiness is the feeling we experience when we are too busy to be miserable. ― Thomas L. Masson

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Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.

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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. – Thomas Jefferson

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It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers. ― Patrick Rothfuss

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