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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer… — Oswald Chambers
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near. — William Henry Davies
You cannot change what you refuse to confront. — John Spence
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life… — Oscar Wilde
Truthfulness with me is hardly a virtue. I cannot discriminate between truths that and those that don't need to be told. — Margot Asquith
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. — Iris Murdoch
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but… — Benjamin Franklin
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot… — Joseph Addison
Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own… — Ann Radcliffe
The life of a sannyasin should be a life of no expectations. And then every moment is such a bliss, such a benediction, because whatsoever… — Rajneesh
Everybody is looking with his own world of desires, expectations, passions, lust, greed, anger. There are a thousand and one things standing between you and… — Rajneesh
Mind's requirements and expectations cannot be fulfilled. Existence has no obligation to fulfill mind's requirements and demands. You have to accept existence as it is. — Rajneesh
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today is nirvana. If… — Rajneesh
You cannot live with expectations because life has no obligation to fulfill your desires. You can live with an open heart, but you cannot live… — Rajneesh
Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and… — Laozi
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever. — Sylvia Plath
If everything is smooth sailing right from the beginning, we cannot become people of substance and character. By surmounting paining setbacks and obstacles, we can… — Daisaku Ikeda
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. — Italo Svevo

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