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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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I've always been in serious relationships. I meet someone and date him for a long period. I don't sit there thinking, like,…
— Gisele Bundchen
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That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
— David Byrne
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what…
— Albert Camus
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that…
— Malcolm X
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Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the…
— William Shakespeare
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage…
— Walter Lippmann
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Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.
— Anna Dello Russo
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We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…
— George Ripley
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
— Ursula Andress
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