Quotes

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“I asked for strength, and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom, and God gave me problems to learn to solve.
I asked for prosperity, and God gave me a brain and brawn to work.
I asked for courage, and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love, and God gave me people to help.
I asked for favors, and God gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted.
I received everything I needed.”

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite—the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be..”

— Deepak Chopra

“I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.”

— Steve Irwin

“Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh,
it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.”

— His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”

— Pope Francis (2013 – )

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Having the freedom of speech does not mean saying what’s humane, hateless and non-prejudicial.”

— Abhijit Naskar, Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”

— Marie Curie, Physicist and first woman to win the Nobel Prize

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

— Muriel Strode (a similar quote exists by Ralph Waldo Emerson)

“The understanding of atomic physics is child’s play, compared with the understanding of child’s play.”

— David Kresh
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