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Moliere

Musician, Playwright, Playwright

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

Thinking - Youth

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

Beauty - Mindset - State

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Entertainer, Psychologist, Psychiatrist

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Beauty

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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Novelist

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.

Creativity - Earth - Ecstasy - Influence - Prospect - Youth

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Vincent Van Gogh

Businessman, Artist, Painter

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Gains - Loss - Youth

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

Talent - Time - Youth

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Jack London

Public Servant, Novelist, Author

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Age - Youth

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Jane Goodall

Writer, Scientist, Primatologist

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature. And can I do that alone? No. So there is a whole army of youth that can do it. So I suppose my mission is to reach as many of those young people as I can through my own efforts.

Army - Effort - Harmony - Mission - People - Whole - World - Youth

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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Beauty - Creativity - Ecstasy - Greatness - Religion - Transport - Wonder

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Beauty - Giving - Mastering - Monk - Realization - Silence

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Moliere

Musician, Playwright, Playwright

You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

Essence - People - Wants - Youth

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Adventure - End - Greatness - Hope - Hopelessness - Inspiration - Knowledge - Man - Power - Soul - Survival - World - Youth

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Rajneesh

Guru

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

Beauty - Creativity - Dance - Enough - Wants

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Habit - Inspiration - Philosophy - Youth

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Friedrich Schlegel

Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher, Philologist, Indologist

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

Attraction - Beauty

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

Art - Beauty - Design - Limits

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Adyashanti

Spiritual Teacher, Author

What am I, really? The beautiful thing...is nobody can tell us what we are. Nobody can really tell us. Not in a way that's going to be satisfactory to us. Our true nature is self-authenticating. When we bump into our true nature, it authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This...is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it's not what we expected.

Beauty - Expectation - Oneself

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

Beauty - Character - Excellence - Giving - Mindset - Production

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman, Orator, Lawyer, Philosopher

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.

Age - Appropriation - Belief - Blessing - Business - Children - Enjoying - Existence - Fixing - Loss - Path - Quality - Seasons - Serious - Strength - Weakness - Youth

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