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The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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The unexamined life is not worth living. ↗

— Socrates

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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