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Wisdom from Assam and the world
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"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
"Know what's important and what isn't. Have the wisdom to know the right thing to do, the integrity to do it, the character to stand up to those who don't, and the courage to stop those who won't."
"The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition."
"To give ones self earnestly to the duties due to men, and, while respecting spiritual beings, to keep aloof from them, may be called wisdom."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
"Technologyβ¦ the knack of so arranging the world that we donβt have to experience it."
"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."