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Quotes by Philosopher
"Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self."
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"Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules."
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"Any fool can marry, but only the wise live happily ever after."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
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"Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur."
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"Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy."
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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
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"Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see he is selling a whole Harley machine in used parts, except for the frame, which the customer already has. He is selling them all for $125. Not a bad price at all.Coming back I comment, 'He'll know something about motorcycles before he gets those together.'Bill laughs. 'And that's the best way to learn, too."
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"When you feel you are badly falling into the emptiness, stick to the reason , stick to the logic; they will reverse the situation!"
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"When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!"
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"People are afraid of immortality because they believe they won't find something to do and will get bored! What to do if we become immortal? We can just walk! It is better than dying!"
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"Ancient wisdom is a present blessing."
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"Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept "impure", is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life."
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"You do not have to wait until you become a saint. [Prayer] is the way to become a saint."
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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."
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"Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it."
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"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
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"You learn the value of water when the rivers are dry. You learn the value of light when the winters are prolonged. You learn the value of water when the fields are bare."
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"Wisdom is seeing something in a non-habitual manner."
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"Don't be afraid of marrying the right person even if they come from the wrong background."
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"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward but he who has hope for it is a fool."
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"To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth."
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"This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height."
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"Love gives you knees to crawl, feet to run, legs to sprint, and wings to soar."
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"Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you."
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"A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit."
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"When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy."
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"The blind cannot see light, but can feel its warmth. The deaf cannot hear sound, but are aware of its power."
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"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."
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"There are people who feel they should be with you, but something is preventing them from coming close. Please can you just lower the frequency of your stern looking face and smile...and they will make you their habit."
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"Smile, just to infuriate those who envy you."
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"Love in your mind can be felt by some, love in your heart can be felt by many, but love in your soul can be felt by all."
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"Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door."
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"If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!"
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"Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the circle by which the person is surrounded. Not so with those whose opinions and feelings are an emanation from their own nature and faculties."
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"To strengthen the body's muscles, exercise; the mind's muscles, read; the heart's muscle's, laugh; and the soul's muscles, love."
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"Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!"
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"In the eyes of high morality, to be a victim is always more honourable than to be a killer!"
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"You don't have to wait for a storm to pass to paint your own rainbow."
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"A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them."
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"No three words have greater force than "I want you", greater strength than "I need you", greater might than "I miss you", and greater power than "I love you"."
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"Shoes need feet to walk! Everything needs something to function!"
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"If you shake a tree, fruit must fall, no matter how reluctant it is."
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"High and holy ambition-to be a saint-is not opposed to holy humility-total reliance on God's grace. Exactly the opposite. Ambition without humility is ambition that fails. It is pride, which goes before a fall (Prov 16:18). Humility without ambition is false humility."
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"Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own."
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"A lion gains nothing from boasting to a dog."
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"The sun that warms is also the sun that burns."
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