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"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."
Happiness
"A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance."
Civilization
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Love
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."
Life
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
Work
"But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life."
Philosophy
"Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."
Philosophy
"Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction."
Relationship
"We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself."
Philosophy
"Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another."
Self
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"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"
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Personal Development
"Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock."
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Personal Development
"Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods."
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Personal Development
"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."
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Personal Development
"The greatest cunning is to have none at all."
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Personal Development
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