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The guru is the potter and the disciple is the clay; through gentle strikes without, he supports from within to shape the perfect vessel.

—Kabir, Kabir Sakhi
Category: The Teacher & DiscipleMood: ReflectiveTags: #kabir #guru #mentorship #growth #discipline
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Education
Category: Philosophy & WisdomMood: PhilosophicalTags: #ralph-waldo-emerson #education #respect #teaching #mentorship
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than yourself.

—Confucius, The Analects, Book I, Chapter 8
Category: Wisdom & Self-KnowledgeMood: BoldTags: #confucius #friendship #mentorship #growth #surroundings
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If you want one year of prosperity, plant seeds. If ten years, plant trees. If a hundred years, cultivate people.

—Chinese Proverbs, Guanzi (Classical Statecraft Treatise of Guan Zhong)
Category: LeadershipMood: BoldTags: #leadership #legacy #mentorship #education #vision
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A single conversation with a wise person is worth more than ten years of solitary study.

—Chinese Proverbs, Ting jun yi xi hua, sheng du shi nian shu (听君一席话，胜读十年书)
Category: WisdomMood: ReflectiveTags: #mentorship #wisdom #dialogue #elders #truth
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of being.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
Category: LeadershipMood: ReflectiveTags: #potential #empathy #mentorship #encouragement
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A single candle loses none of its brilliance by kindling the flame of another.

—Persian Proverbs, Classical Sufi Teaching Lore & Saadi Precepts
Category: LoveMood: JoyfulTags: #generosity #light #sharing #mentorship #sufism
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Walk with the wise in the garden of discernment, and you will become wise without noticing.

—Persian Proverbs, Geleh khoshbooi dar hamam (گِل خوشبوی در حمام) — Saadi's Gulistan
Category: WisdomMood: SereneTags: #mentorship #companionship #wisdom #character #saadi
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