"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

Truth, Illusion, Certainty, Life, Change

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"Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man."

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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle, American Novelist

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"A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The living souls have the breath of life."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

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"She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free."

Barbara Boxer, American Politician

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"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

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"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."

David Mamet, American Dramatist

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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."

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"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."

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"If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."

Mortality

"Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God."

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"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"

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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Resilience

"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

Imagination

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

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"You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty."

Man