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Personal Growth Quotes

"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"
Confucius
"Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself."
Confucius
"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get."
Confucius
"If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
Confucius
"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
Confucius
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
Confucius
"You cannot open a book without learning something."
Confucius
"The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has."
Confucius
"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
Confucius
"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."
Confucius
"To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Confucius
"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again."
Rumi
"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
Rumi
"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."
Rumi
"Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
Rumi
"Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?"
Rumi
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
Rumi
"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
Rumi
"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?"
Rumi
"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."
Rumi