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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
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"In quietness we find inner peace."

"You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together."

"Don't resist. Accept it to create memories, and then let it go."

"To be in peace, grow calmness and compassion in your heart."

"Peace is a process of self-realization, a realization that peace resides inside us, in our inner calmness and tranquility."
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."


"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."


"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."


"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."


"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."


"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."


"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."


"Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance."


"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
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