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"Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is."
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"The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world."
"The world will see true peace when there are no boundaries of religion and the religion of all will be pure unconditional love."
"We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become."
"The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority."
"How can the truth make anything worse?"
"There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby."
"This heart within me I can feel, and I judge that it exists. This world I can touch, and I likewise judge that it exists. There ends all my knowledge, and the rest is construction. (...) Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
"Know thyself, presume not God to scan;The proper study of mankind is man."
"I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard-I must keep armed."
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"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract."
"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size."
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