Sourced and curated.

A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are.

Shunryu Suzuki

1970

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The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

Shunryu Suzuki

1970

★ 1.1

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

1970

★ 1.1

Lecture

If laws are needed, Islam has established them all. There is no need... After establishing a government, to sit down and draw up laws.

Ayatollah Khomeini

1970

★ 1.1

Lecture

Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everything in every possible way.

Salman Rushdie

1990

★ 1.1

Interview

I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible.

Zhang Huan

2000

★ 1.1

Here am I; send me.

Isaiah

Isaiah 6:8 · 681 BC

★ 1.2

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

528 BC

★ 1.2

Historical literature

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

Sima Qian

109 BC

★ 1.2

Judge not according to the appearance.

John 7:24 · 90

★ 1.2

On that day you shall be exposed, not one secret of yours concealed. Then as for him who is given his book in his right hand, he shall say, "Here, take and read my book! Certainly I thought that I should encounter my reckoning." So he shall be in a pleasing life in a lofty Garden, its clusters nigh to gather.

The Quran, The Koran, 69:18-23 · 632

★ 1.2

Righteous women are therefore obedient, guarding the secret for God's guarding. And those you fear may be rebellious, admonish; banish them to their couches, and beat them.

The Quran, The Koran, 4:34 · 632

★ 1.2

If a warrior is not unattached to life and death, he will be of no use whatsoever.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

1716

★ 1.2

Short story

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw · 1888

★ 1.2

Political literature

Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy, and creates dissension.

Mao Zedong

1937

★ 1.2

Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness.

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh)

1976

★ 1.2

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

300 BC

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The superior man will not manifest either narrowmindedness or the want of self-respect.

300 BC

★ 1.3

Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

300 BC

★ 1.3

All men have in themselves that which is truly honorable. Only they do not think of it.

300 BC

★ 1.3

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Matthew 5:16 · 60

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For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 6:14-15 · 60

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Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Matthew 26:41 · 60

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And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

John 17:3 · 90

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Wealth and children are the adornment of this present world; but the abiding things, the deed of righteousness, are better with God in reward, and better in hope.

The Quran, The Koran, 18:46 · 632

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Set not up with God another god, or thou wilt sit condemned and forsaken. The Lord has decreed you shall not serve any but Him, and be good to parents... Speak unto them words respectful, and lower to them the wing of humbleness out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them, as they raised me up when I was little."

The Quran, The Koran, 17:23-24 · 632

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Praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being, the All-merciful, the All-compassionate, the Master of the Day of Doom.

The Quran, The Koran, 1:2-4 · 632

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He makes the night to enter into the day and makes the day to enter into the night, and He has subjected the sun and the moon, each of them, to a stated term.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

The Quran, The Koran, 31:13 · 632

★ 1.3

Interview

Malala Yousafzai

2013

★ 1.3

Don't get rid of negative emotion, but just use it... Like the salt in your food.

Yoko Ono

2016

★ 1.3

To pursue it is to be human, to give it up is to be a beast.

Xunxi

250 BC

★ 1.3

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

The goal in life is living in agreement with nature.

John 15:13 · 90

★ 1.3

Historical literature

Zeno of Citium

Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers · 200

★ 1.3

He is the First and the Last, the Outward and the Inward; He has knowledge of everything.

The Quran, The Koran, 57:3 · 632

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Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from thy Lord.

The Quran, The Koran, 10:61 · 632

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The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only the Messenger of God.

The Quran, The Koran, 4:171 · 632

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Whosoever submits his will to God and performs good deeds, has laid hold of the most firm handle, and unto God is the issue of all affairs.