A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. — Max Lucado

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Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

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There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

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We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. - Confucius

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Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind.

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