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Words from the wise📜, one quote at a time.✨

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"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."

- Immanuel Kant

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"The rarest of human qualities is consistency."

- Jeremy Bentham

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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."

- Thomas Henry Huxley

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“First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do.”

- Epictetus

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

― Oscar Wilde

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“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.”

― Lao Tzu

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"Surrounded by the flames of jealousy, the jealous one winds up, like the scorpion, turning the poisoned sting against himself."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.”

― Rabindranath Tagore

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“A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”

― Chanakya

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"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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“Keep Going.
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”

― Roy T. Bennett,

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"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

– Japanese Proverb

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whose waters are full of the poison of sense objects. This is indeed a miserable fate."

- Adi Shankaracarya

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"Yeilding to the power of rajas, he identifies himself with the many motions and changes of the mind. Therefore he is swept hither and thither, now rising, now sinking, in the boundless ocean of birth and death,

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Example:

"I had been dealing with long hours and pay cuts, but my boss yelling at me in front of the team was the last straw. I quit immediately."

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Idiom of the day:

"The last straw"

The idiom "the last straw" refers to the final, minor annoyance or problem in a series of unpleasant events that ultimately makes a situation unbearable, causing someone to finally lose their patience or take action.

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Origin:

The phrase comes from the ancient proverb "the straw that breaks the camel's back." While a single straw is incredibly light and insignificant, piling too many on a camel's back will eventually cause its spine to snap.

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"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

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"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

– Theodore Roosevelt

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

- Arthur Schopenhauer