Bahá'u'lláh Quotes
Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
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I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
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I read The Stinky Cheese Man as an adult. I missed that book when I was a kid. I grew up mostly with books bought at yard sales, picture books from the fifties to 1975, which is really a lucky thing.
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Sorrows when shared are less burdensome, though joys divided are increased.
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I'm not very interested in telling the facts. I have a lot of investment in telling the truth.
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Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears.
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I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in his entire life had he come to rest in the quiet center of himself but had forever cast himself from some dark past he could not remember to a future that did not exist. Not once had he been present for his life. So his life had passed like a dream. Is it possible for people to miss their lives the way one can miss a plane?
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Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.
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Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.
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Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.
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Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.
