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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to…
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A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.
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Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
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Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that,…
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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future,…
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
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The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.
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If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much…
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The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit made permanent. Nature, like the destruction of Pompeii,…
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There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point…
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Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness…
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are,…
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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which…
— Ole Hallesby
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To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise…
— Ole Hallesby
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Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we…
— Leon Brown
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Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet…
— Dalai Lama
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We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have…
— Cesar Chavez
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Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
— George Eliot
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The theory of the method of knowing which is advanced in these pages may be termed pragmatic. ... Only that which has…
— John Dewey
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I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your…
— Richard G. Scott
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Like so much of what is worthwhile in life, our needs for friendship are often best met in the home. If our…
— Marlin K. Jensen
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the…
— Sven Birkerts
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