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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

—Baruch Spinoza

“Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.”

—Epictetus

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

—Aristotle

“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”

—Aristotle

“We should not use philosophy like a herbal remedy, to be discarded when we're through. Rather, we must allow philosophy to remain with us, continually guarding our judgements throughout life, forming part of our daily regimen, like eating a nutritious diet or taking physical exercise.”

—Musonius Rufus

“Life is a journey, not a destination.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

—Marie Curie

“The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.”

—Alexander Graham Bell

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

—Confucius

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

—Albert Einstein

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

—Albert Einstein

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”

—Voltaire

Keep learning, keep growing

following your unique path (self actualization) and encouraging others to follow theirs as well (we have so much potential within us!:))

and we will all bloom like flowers and butterflies

🌸🌺🦋