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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real…
— Rosalind Franklin
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Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon…
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Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence,…
— Andre Agassi
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For me, art, and especially music, exist to elevate us as far as possible above everyday existence.
— Unknown Author
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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence.
— Dalai Lama
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The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real…
— Henri Nouwen
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It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis…
— Andre Agassi
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A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And…
— Bill Maher
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