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Wisdom from Assam and the world

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"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
G
"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."
tags: friendship
H
"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."
L
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
B
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
A
"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
J
"Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him."
D
"Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness."
tags: friendship
T
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
P
"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
J
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."
tags: wisdom
E
"Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one."
D
"Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."
C
"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
J
"It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own."
T
"Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error."
A
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic."
tags: technology
N
"The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going."
R
"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."
B
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
E
"Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly."
M
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
tags: friendship
M
"Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love."