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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers…

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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".
Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he…
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .…
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things…
I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep,…
Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by…
The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking…
People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones'…
Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach…
What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H.G. Wells
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. — Euripides
The will of man is his happiness. — Friedrich Schiller
It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance. — Wallace D. Wattles
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to… — Ayn Rand
We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the… — Alice McDermott
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the… — Bruce Lee
The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will adopt a… — Bertrand Russell
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears?… — Baron d'Holbach
Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by… — Ayn Rand
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had… — J I Packer
Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and… — Unknown Author

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