In judging our progress as individual we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education. These are, of course, important in measuring one's success in material matters and it is perfectly understandable if many people exert themselves mainly to achieve all these. But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualites which are within reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life. . Nelson Mandela
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  1. Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
  2. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
  3. I am the captain of my soul.
  4. A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
  5. A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
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