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"The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; but to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies."
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"I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony."
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"To celebrate man is to celebrate God."
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."
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"What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd."
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"As the saying goes, "Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone. Smiling is a universal symbol of happiness that transcends language and communication challenges."
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"The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for coin as he rasped a haunting melody. Life could not be more perfect."
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"For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers."
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"Believe in your power to make happiness a choice-do so every day, until it becomes a lifelong habit."
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"Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness."
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"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
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"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals."
Faith
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
Life
"Wherever you turn, you can find someone who needs you. Even if it is a little thing, do something for which there is no pay but the privilege of doing it. Remember, you don't live in a world all of your own."
Society
"Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life."
Life
"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."
Life
"Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation."
Creation
"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
Experience
"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
Character
"If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be, if it doesn't it never was."
Observation
"Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them."
Being
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