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"Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!"

"We can only climb the mountains because there's a valley that makes the mountain a mountain."

"For men, women are their 'counter weights' and when that is not enough, their daughters are their 'counter weights.' One can't do without a counter weight. Otherwise, he will fall over."

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

"There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live."

"This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!"

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."

"Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work."
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"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."

"I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me. I have wondered why it is not large and beautiful enough for others."

"In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history."

"The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere."

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

"People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other's personalities. Who wouldn't? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that's not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner's faults honestly and say, 'I can work around that. I can make something out of it.'? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it's always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you."

"In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite."

"Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever."
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