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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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