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Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves. ↗

— Nicolas G. Janovsky

#inspirational #introspection #politics #self-discovery #strength-through-adversity

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#achieved #attained #cannot #only #through

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. ↗

— Mae West

#his #kept #mother #out #should

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#another #been #before #begins #change

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#acts #almighty #alone #before #god

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. ↗

— Leon Edel

#fade #his #house #inner #into

Saudi Arabia has also changed. People today are connecting with each other all across the world through small gadgets and television. It's a different society. ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#also #arabia #changed #connecting #different

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#going #great #idea #instead #just

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it. ↗

— Louis Agassiz

#been #before #believed #bible #conflicts

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#disguise #forget #know #lies #man