My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
- Topic: Kindness, Life, Self
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You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.
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Let’s rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another.
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To be able to practice five things everywhere under the heaven constitutes perfect virtue. . . gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
True life is lived with tiny changes occur.
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
