If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, ...

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

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Sigmund Freud

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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Winston Churchill

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

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Abraham Lincoln

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Winston Churchill

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

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Rumi

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

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Rumi

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

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Rumi

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

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Rumi

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

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Rumi

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