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"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."
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"Life is as fair as you perceive it to be."
"Wisdom in sorrow is better than joy in folly."
"The worm's bad luck is the bird's good fortune."
"Count your summers, not your winters."
"If all you have is money, you are among the poorest people in the world."
"Write it as you see in your own perspective, you may be right or wrong but then what, that's how you see it."
"The greatest mountain is still made of grains of sand."
"Money promises more than it delivers, love delivers more than it promises."
"It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one."
"Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?"
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"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature."
"I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows."
"It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion."
"Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years."
"This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification."
"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."
"Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief encounters with it in my later years, even in old age."
"Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal."
"For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself."
"In Germany I have been acknowledged again since the fall of Hitler, but my works, partly suppressed by the Nazis and partly destroyed by the war; have not yet been republished there."
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