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"Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am."
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"When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit."
"Originality is the death of mediocrity."
"To be ordinary, be normal; to be original, be different; to be valuable, be unique; to be priceless, be yourself."
"Do what is best for you--no matter what others think."
"If you can honor yourself and be real about your discomfort and pain, then your happiness will be just as real."
"Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment."
"Always tying to please others is definitely an assured path to stress and failures in life."
"Truth speaks for itself if we'd just let it speak."
"True creation requires authority and authenticity."
"A beautiful rose with an ugly soul wilts quickly."
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"We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God."
"October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful."
"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."
"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."
"It is not merely our own desire but the desire of Christ in His Spirit that drives us to grow in love. Those who seldom or never feel in their hearts the desire for the love of God and other men, and who do not thirst for the pure waters of desire which are poured out in us by the strong, living God, are usually those who have drunk from other rivers or have dug for themselves broken cisterns."
"True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques."
"When men live huddled together without true communication, there seems to be a greater sharing, and a more genuine communion. But this is not communion, only immersion in the general meaninglessness of countless slogans and clichés repeated over and over again so that in the end one listens without hearing and responds without thinking. The constant din of empty words and machine noises, the endless booming of loudspeakers end by making true communication and true communion almost impossible..."
"All theology is a kind of birthday. Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient."
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