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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.




It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.




Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.




Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills




What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters




Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.




Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.




If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.




They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.




Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.




I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.




Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.




What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt




The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.




I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.




Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.




What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you




A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.




The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.




The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.




The light of the stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So is it with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personality.




Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.




If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.




Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manefestation of nature agree to find new shapes.




The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.




The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.




When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.




Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.




A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.




It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.




I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.




You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.




When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.




Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.




If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.




Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.




My friends and my road-fellows, pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that wears a cloth it does not weave, eats a bread it does not harvest, and drinks a wine that flows not from its own winepress. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks in a funeral, boasts not except among its ruins, and will rebel not save when its neck is laid between the sword and the block. Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another with trumpetings again. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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