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Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much…
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
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Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.
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Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.
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To pay homage to beauty is to admire Nature; to admire Nature is to worship God
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Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a…
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Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but…
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
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I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or…
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Glad and merry and sweet is the blessed and lovely demeanour of our Lord towards our souls, for he saw us always…
— Julian of Norwich
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God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a…
— Pietro Metastasio
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Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it…
— Margaret Prescott Montague
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Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that…
— Jeanette Winterson
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It is our inward journey that leads us through time – forward or back, seldom in a straight line, most often spiraling.…
— Eudora Welty
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The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its…
— Victor Hugo
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From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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