"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

Being, Destiny, Journey, Quest

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"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one."

God

"Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated."

Life

"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others."

Dignity

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

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"We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours."

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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

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""Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

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"Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning."

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"God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason."

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"The Assembly has witnessed over the last weeks how historical truth is established; once an allegation has been repeated a few times, it is no longer an allegation, it is an established fact, even if no evidence has been brought out in order to support it."

Truth