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To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.
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MenciusMencius The gap between enthusiasm and indifference is filled with failures. The great man is he that does not lose his child’s heart.
MenciusMencius When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.
MenciusMencius All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
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MenciusMencius Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
MenciusMencius If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
MenciusMencius He who wishes to be benevolent will not be rich.
MenciusMencius The myriad things are complete in us. There is no greater joy than to reflect on ourselves and become sincere.
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Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar You know how much you love it when you get it in abundance.
Mac MillerMac Miller Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.
Eckhart TolleEckhart Tolle Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
EpicurusEpicurus Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Be moderate in order to taste the joys of life in abundance.
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