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Let your peace be materialized in actions.  Vilayat Inayat Khan 

Laughter is the best medicine.   

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Real men use strength to control themselves, not dominate others.

'A closed heart means not trusting oneself to love'.  Vilayat Inayat Khan

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.

"It is impossible to radiate light if one is harboring resentment or guilt."  Vilayat Inayat Khan

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It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Did You Know:  Some Facts about Poverty The total wealth of the world's three richest individuals is greater than the combined gross domestic product of the 48 poorest countries - a quarter of the world's States. In 1960 the income of the 20% of the world's population living in the richest countries was 30 times greater than that of the 20% in the poorest countries.  In 1995 it was 82 times greater.  In over 70 countries, per capita income is lower today than it was 20 years ago. Almost three billion people - half the world's population - live on less than two dollars a day. The UN calculates that the whole of the world population's basic needs for food, drinking water, education and medical care could be covered by a levy of less than 4% on the accumulated wealth of the 225 largest fortunes.  To satisfy all the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only $13 billion, hardly as much as the people of the United States and the European Union spend each year on perfume. Excerpt from: Human Development Report 1998, United Nations Development Programme, New York,   September 1998. Ramonet, Ignacio;  "The Politics of Hunger"   Translated by Barry Smerin  http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/1998/11/?c=01leader