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There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any… — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
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By Christ's purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to… — Morrie Schwartz Copy Share Image
Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.… — Barbara Copy Share Image
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New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the… — John Gunther Copy Share Image
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I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to… In that kind of world, [the] only place… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too… — Paul Hamilton Hayne Copy Share Image
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We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
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