Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. ― Rumi

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the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

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Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

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The best of knowledge and righteous acts are those hidden to the people. ― Al-Fudhayl ibn Iyyadh

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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

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When children attend schools that place a greater value in discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prisons. — Angela Davis

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Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ― Rumi

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Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living? ― Bob Marley

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I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness. We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values and our own interests. — Gretchen Rubin

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Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

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