"The highest lesson is to teach the human heart self-knowledge through compassion and anger. And the deeper this self-knowledge, the wiser, fairer, more sincere, more tolerant, and kinder a person becomes." Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The whole world is a mirror, and each of us sees in it only what we are capable of seeing. We cannot see the mistakes of others until we learn to acknowledge our own. And this is not weakness, but a path to understanding and self-knowledge."
Sergey Ionnikov
"The salvation of humanity lies in the human heart, in the human capacity for self-knowledge, in human gentleness, and in human responsibility."
Václav Havel
"Get out of your head and enter your heart. Think less and feel more. Do not become attached to your thoughts; immerse yourself in sensations. Then your heart will come alive." Osho
"Whose heart aches as if from a burn,
Whose soul is filled with anguish and тревога.
Yet there is one thing that comforts me somewhat:
Whatever happens—it is all in God's hands."
Hafiz of Shiraz
I am the taste of water, the radiance of the moon and sun, the sacred Word (Om) in the Vedas, the sound in the ether, and courage in people.
I am the pure fragrance of the earth and the light of fire; I am the life of all beings and the austerity of ascetics. Know Me as the eternal seed of all that exists! I am the wisdom of the intellectually gifted and the splendor of all magnificent things.
"When I was five years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They said I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life." John Lennon
"In solitude, you will disappear as an ego and a personality and find yourself as LIFE itself, immortal and eternal. Until you are capable of being alone, your entire search for truth will remain a failure."
Osho
"In uninterrupted solitude, the mind becomes ever sharper. You do not need a large laboratory in order to think and invent. Ideas are born when the mind is free from the influence of external conditions. The secret of inventiveness lies in solitude.
Ideas are born in solitude."
Nikola Tesla
"In solitude, everyone sees in themselves what they truly are."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"The air is full of ideas. They are constantly knocking on our heads. You simply need to know what you want, then forget about it and get on with your work. The idea will come suddenly; it always has." Henry Ford
"Be alone—that is the secret of invention. Be alone—that is precisely when ideas are born." Nikola Tesla
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“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. So let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven” (Matthew 5:14–16).
“Your remedy is within you, but you do not feel it, and your illness also comes from within you, but you do not see it. You think you are this small body, yet within you lies a vast world.” Ali ibn Abu Talib
“Everyone dreams of changing the world, but no one sets out to change themselves.” Leo Tolstoy
Be careful not to practice your righteousness before others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret; then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you openly.
"Freedom is responsibility. That is why most people are afraid of freedom." George Bernard Shaw
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you could in two years by trying to get other people interested in your special qualities." Dale Carnegie
“You may be poor, but no one can deprive you of your most important right—the right to ruin your life in any way available to you.”
Jonathan Franzen, “Freedom”
“Freedom is something worth living for and worth dying for. Without freedom, a person is only half a being.”
Erich Maria Remarque
“If you love someone, you love the whole person as they are, not as you want them to be.”
“People invented respect to fill the place in the heart where love should be.”
“Those who deserve respect are the people who, regardless of the situation, time, or place, remain the same as they truly are.” Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
“Excessive anger inspires fear, while excessive affection diminishes the respect people have for you. Do not be so harsh that you weary everyone, nor so meek that people dare to be insolent toward you.” Saadi
“If one sows patience and shows diligence, the seeds of knowledge that have been planted will surely produce good shoots. The root of learning is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” Leonardo da Vinci
“There's no power mightier than knowledge. A person armed with knowledge is invincible.” Maxim Gorky
- A person of knowledge is one who conscientiously and faithfully endures the hardships and difficulties of learning. Someone who, without haste but also without delay, sets out on a perilous journey to discover whether they can unravel the secrets of knowledge and power...
..- A person must challenge and defeat their four eternal enemies. Anyone who conquers them becomes a person of knowledge.
When a person begins to learn, they never have a clear understanding of the obstacles. Their goal is vague, and their intent is not steady. They expect a reward they will never receive because they do not yet suspect the trials that lie ahead. Gradually, they begin to learn—first little by little, then with increasing success. And soon they become confused. What they learn never matches what they had imagined, and fear takes hold of them. Learning always turns out to be something different from what they expect. Every step is a new challenge, and the fear a person feels grows relentlessly and mercilessly. Their goal becomes a battlefield.
Carlos Castaneda
"One can truly understand only what one has gone through oneself, and truly know only what one has arrived at through one’s own reasoning. Therefore, never listen to people who speak of paths they have never walked and of knowledge they have never attained." Juliana Wilson
"Information in its pure form is not knowledge. The true source of knowledge is experience."
Albert Einstein
"And they created the school as the devil commanded them. The child loves nature, so they shut him away within four walls. He cannot sit still—so they forced him to remain motionless. He loves working with his hands, but they began teaching him theories and ideas. He loves to speak—so they ordered him to be silent. He strives to understand—so they told him to memorize. He would like to seek knowledge for himself—but they give it to him ready-made.
And then the children learned what they would never have learned under any other circumstances. They learned to lie and pretend."
A. Ferrier