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I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

-Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

-Alden Nowlan, poet, novelist, and playwright (1933-1983)

Our perception that we have "no time" is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

-Margaret Visser, writer and broadcaster (b. 1940)

"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else."

- Buddha

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him."

- Goethe

"Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man."

- Rabindranath Tagore

The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.

-Florence Luscomb, architect and suffragist (1887-1985)