"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."

Cause, Causes, Despair, Fact, Perfection

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"You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection."

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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."

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"For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do."

George Linnaeus Banks, English Writer

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Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow."

Brigham Young, American Leader

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"I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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"Logic is a poor model of cause and effect."

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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

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"Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything."

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"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."

Fact

"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."

Birds

"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."

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."

Man

"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."

Fact

"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."

People

"If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth."

God

"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."

Life

"Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!"

God

"There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go."

Acceptance