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"I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every predicament, the victim's side, so as to reduce the damage done. Among them I can at least try to discover how on attains to the third category; in other words, to peace."
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"With the glorious flames of compassion in your heart, embrace the goodness from all religions."

"I do not believe in a Science that cannot wipe the tears of a widow, or bring a piece of bread to the starving mouth of an orphan. However sophisticated may be the scientific achievements, however well-spun may be the philosophy behind them, I do not call them Science, unless they are put to practice in the pursuit of easing the sufferings of the human society."

"If you can find a cause that touches your soul it will make you a better person, it will show you the power of helping others and ultimately the biggest winner is us. Giving to others helps us to grow, to have a different outlook in life, to appreciate what we have and to be more positive."

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love."

"Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love."

"There is something lovable about almost everyone you encounter. Uncover it, and you will experience true compassion."

"He's better now, Loo. He's taking care of the cats."
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"I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say."

"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

"O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!"

"How did I picture the life after the grave?I Fairly bawled out at him: 'A life in which I can remember this life on earth. That's all I want of it."

"Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
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