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If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like the roots of a tree; it keeps the tree upright and gives it life, but it itself is hidden underneath the earth and eyes cannot see it. ↗

— Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

#clinks #earth #eyes #fame #flee

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead. ↗

— Joan Oliver Goldsmith

#music #life

War is life multiplied by some number that no one has ever heard of. ↗

— Sebastian Junger

#army #combat #life #marine-corps #military

I surround myself with things that make me happy. Why? Because ... it makes me happy. ↗

— Kelly Epperson

#life #philosophy #life

Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#gossip #india #life #mumbay #wisdom

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#nature #poetry #wisdom #life

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#kindness #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sympathy #life

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#apology #life-quotes #self #truth #unspoken

... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. ↗

— Lucy Larcom

#expectation #inspirational #life #inspirational

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#library #life