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Wisdom from Assam and the world

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"It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot."
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"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
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"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress."
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know."
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"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of."
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"Action is eloquence!"
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
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"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique."
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand."
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"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."
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"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
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"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
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"Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either."
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"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else."
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"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
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"Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat."
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"Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
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"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."
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"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."
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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
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"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much."
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"The awareness of our own strength makes us modest."
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"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
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"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another."