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If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

— Sri Chinmoy Songs of the Soul (1971)

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If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

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When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.

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If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

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