You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don’t.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
Category Archives: Reflections
Rumi (1207 – 1273)
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Catullus – Gaius Valerius (84 BC – 54 BC)
I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hand of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Ovid – Publius Ovidius Naso (43 BC – AD 17)
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), on writing and rewriting
Often you must turn your stylus to erase, if you hope to write anything worth a second reading. – From: Satires
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Aristotle (384B BC – 322 BC)
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135)
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
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Epictetus (AD 55 – AD 135)
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
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Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 350-370 – 415)
Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
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Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. AD 350-370 – 415)
All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.
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