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Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine yourself.
~ Confucius quotes from The Analects
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Do I contradict myself?Very well then I contradict myself,(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.
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O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.
~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.
~ Mevlana Rumi quotes from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance
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Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul.
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?
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