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“I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown of my feet by any.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend”
Mahatma Gandhi

“That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God.”
C.S. Lewis

“Had to be here to understand,” he had said. He’d meant here in Chicago; but he could also have meant here in my shoes, an older black man who still burns from a lifetime of insults, of foiled ambitions, of ambitions abandoned before they’ve been tried. I asked myself if I could truly understand that. I assumed, took for granted, that I could. Seeing me, these men had made the same assumption.”
Barack Obama

“You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.”
Frank Herbert

“Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.”
Thomas A. Edison

“It’s vital that you accept yourself and learn to be happy with who God made you to be. If you want to truly enjoy your life, you must be at peace with yourself.”
Joel Osteen

“The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below.” 
Bruce Lee

“When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president…the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels. It has to do with empathy." President Obama, in conversation with Marilynne Robinson, in New York Review of Books”
Barack Obama

“God has a way of removing what looks permanent by showing us an explosion of His goodness.”
Joel Osteen

“My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
Frank Herbert

“The way you see your life shapes your life.”
Rick Warren

“When you complain, you explain pain for no gain. Endure and balance yourself through the pain, be hopeful and persist to the end.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“When the ultimate perfection is attained, the body and limbs perform by themselves what is assigned to them to do with no interference from the mind.
Bruce Lee

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