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"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."
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"You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose."

"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."

"If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!"

"Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing."

"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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"The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason."

"A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination."

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January."

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."

"Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night."

"October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again."

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."

"Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason."
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