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- Time is just an illusion. What you need is to live this very moment. That is all that matters.
- Yeah, we should all line up along the Bosphorus Bridge and puff as hard as we can to shove this city in the direction of…
- No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get…
- If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to…
- We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we take for granted,…
- A saint belongs to all humanity.
- We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat…
- The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of…
- The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we…
- I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake…
- What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on…
- Love cannot be explained, yet it explains all.
- Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed,…
- Bountiful is your life, full and complete. Or so you think, until someone comes along and makes you realize what you have been missing all…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle