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If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

Abdu'l-Baha

If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
ABDU'L-BAHA

Happiness Happy Birthday Joy Look Season Time Wait
Attainment to the knowledge of God and that which is conducive to human welfare.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Attainment Conductive God Human Knowledge Welfare
New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Awaiting Bestowal Bounties Descending New Perfection
To be a Baha’i simply means to love all the world; to love humanity and try to serve it; to work for universal peace and universal brotherhood.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Brotherhood Humanity Love Peace Religious Universal
The reality of man is his thought, not his material body. The thought force and the animal force are partners. Although man is part of the animal creation, he possesses a power of thought superior to all other created beings.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Animal Body Force Man Material Partner Reality
Whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism.
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Despairing Materialism Progress Science Slough Wall Wing
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful,
ABDU'L-BAHA

Blessed Depressed Mood Prayer Sacrifice Slave
Close investigation will show that the primary cause of oppression and injustice, of unrighteousness, irregularity and disorder
ABDU'L-BAHA

Close Disorder Educational Injustice Investigation Oppression People Primary Religious
You are the ones who are called to uplift the cause of unity among the nations of the earth.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Among Called Earth Nation One Unity Uplift
By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Demonstrate Economic Equation She Social
I want you to be happy…to laugh, smile and rejoice in order that others may be made happy by you.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Baha Happy Laugh Laughing Made Order Rejoice You
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Art Diversity Family Human Music Perfect Together Trust
The most important principle of divine philosophy is the oneness of the world of humanity, the unity of mankind, the bond conjoining East and West, the tie of love which blends human hearts.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Conjoining Heart Humanity Importance Love Mankind Philosophy Unity
Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions
ABDU'L-BAHA

Body Confined Country Distance Earth Man Mind Observe Small Span Travel
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it.
ABDU'L-BAHA

Baha Become Dislike Division Hatred Religion
These he must attain in this world so that after his ascension from the earthly to the heavenly Kingdom he shall find all that is needful in that eternal life ready for him
ABDU'L-BAHA

Ascension Attain Earthly Kingdom Needful World

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