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"A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together."
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"Connect and communicate to sacred strangers in daily life."

"We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her."

"Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction."

"Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world."

"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."

"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."

"The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of the world: but joy, pleasure, and merriment He has scattered broadcast...The security we crave would teach us to rest our hearts in this world and oppose an obstacle to our return to God...Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home."

"Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict."

"The people in your life will either help you shake hands with yourself or they'll teach you what you don't want. Everyone, eventually, does one or the other. All pain transforms to learning. All love transforms to self-awareness."
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"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

"The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription."

"Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man."

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete."

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."

"Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?"
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