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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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We can be unhappy about many things, but jy can still be there... It is important to become aware that at every…
— Henri Nouwen
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What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong…
— Charles Lindbergh
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A poet’s freedom lies precisely in the impossibility of worldly success. It is the freedom of one who knows he will never…
— Walter Martin
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Freedom lies outside the pattern of society; but to be free of that pattern you have to understand the whole content of…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It…
— Rajneesh
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In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the…
— Steven Strogatz
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Logic leaves us no choice. In that sense, math always involves both invention and discovery: we invent the concepts but discover their…
— Steven Strogatz
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Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
— Charles Lindbergh
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Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just…
— Kris Carr
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Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this…
— Ruth Nanda Anshen
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Freedom lies in being bold.
— Robert Frost
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