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Collector Of Fairy Tales Inspirational Quotes (165)

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Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: Well, who are the best people to live with?
Lafcadio Hearn
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
Idries Shah
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Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.
Andrew Lang
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Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.
Andrew Lang
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I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers.
Andrew Lang
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Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.
Andrew Lang
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Life's more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang
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Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.
Andrew Lang
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A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself.
Andrew Lang
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
Idries Shah
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It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.
Giambattista Vico
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He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven.
Wilhelm Grimm
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
Idries Shah
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. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.
Arthur Ransome
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Idries Shah
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Idries Shah
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He who helped you when you were in trouble ought not afterwards be despised by you
Wilhelm Grimm
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
Idries Shah
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One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures that is everlastingly wrong.
Lafcadio Hearn
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When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
Arthur Ransome
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The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all the brothers and if he spoke little, he heard and thought the more.
Charles Perrault
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
Idries Shah
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Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.
Giambattista Vico
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
Idries Shah
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