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"One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying."
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"Expectation has brought me disappointment. Disappointment has brought me wisdom. Acceptance, gratitude and appreciation have brought me joy and fulfilment."
"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."
"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
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"Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things."
"Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel."
"You are also caught with the fact that man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
"I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
"Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage."
"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."
"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"
"The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through."
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