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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
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"The illusion of the seventh veil was the illusion that you could get somebody else to do it for you. To think for you. To hang on your cross. The priest, the rabbi, the imam, the swami, the philosophical novelist were traffic cops, at best. They might direct you through a busy intersection, but they wouldn't follow you home and park your car."
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"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
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"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
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"Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself."
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"When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others."
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"The gods help them that help themselves."
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"Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the open fruit basket. Then you take those fruits and make cakes and pies. But life is going to give you the chance to go out there and pick those fruits yourself. Then you can eat them, or make them into something else; any which way, your own hands picked them!"
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"Stop looking outside or at others for that which you seek of yourself."
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"If the sun needed friends to shine, it would not rule the sky alone."
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"Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources."
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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Desire
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
Self-Reliance
"Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture."
Painting
"Genius is eternal patience."
Genius
"I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
Hope
"The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone."
Thought
"Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come."
Beauty
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
Appreciation
"If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes."
Beauty
"Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him."
Love
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