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Quotes by Swedish Authors

"He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark."

"There's no point in being an unhappy success, and there's not much sense in being a happy failure either."

"Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean that they are right and you should listen to them."

"I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more."

"Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence."

"Fuck your manners.""You don't have to settle for just my manners."

"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."

"One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security."

"Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego."

"Our heart is actually already open, but it is our judgments about others and ourselves that keep it closed. When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open. The way to healing is to learn to love and accept ourselves unconditionally. It means to embrace both our positive and negative sides with love. It means to love everything that we find inside ourselves. Healing happens when we bring everything that we find inside ourselves out into the light."

"A child comes from God, a child is a gift from God, but a child is not our possession. Give the child unconditional love and freedom. Respect the child, the child has its own soul. The child has its own way."

"Not all poison was bitter. Some of the deadliest poisons in the world tasted sweet, they were that much more dangerous because of it."

"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."

"In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests."

"The most important issue we have to deal with is freedom of movement."

"Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age."

"You only know how you feel, and you can only guess how others feel."

"The boundaries of your abilities are set by no one else but yourself, ultimately, and it is up to you when they will be pushed."

"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."

"If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression."

"Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful."

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing."

"And I know that I'm not perfect,But this path feels perfect."

"People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular."

"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique."

"Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works."

"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations."

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

"I wish I were supernaturally strong so I could put right everything that is wrong."

"Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is."

"I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference."

"Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost.Enlightenment is more like an experiencing. It is a process. It begins, but it never ends. You enter it, but you can never possess it. It is a deep merging and melting with Existence. It is a oneness. It is like a drop dropping into the Ocean."
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