"[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets."

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Source : Sir William Jones (1875). “Eleven Discourses: Containing His Anniversary Addresses on History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia”, p.129

William Jones

#Teacher Quotes #Poetry Quotes #World Quotes

“If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.”
“[On meditation] ...that's the single most important thing that I do...there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.”
“The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.”
“I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now, but I don't have any qualifications or an exhaustive body of research to back up my observations.”

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“A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.”

Source : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.379, Del Rey
“Do what you fear and your fear will die.”
“Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.”
“Let tenderness pour from your eyes, the way sun gazes warmly on earth.”

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