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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".
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he…
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . .…
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things…
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I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep,…
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Most people live dejectedly in worldly joys or sorrows. They sit on the sidelines and do not join the dance.
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by…
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The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
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To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking…
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People generally think that it is the world, the environment, external relationships, which stand in one's way, in the way of ones'…
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach…
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
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To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
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The less one remembers about the day before, the more the new day will be unfettered by triviality.
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good…
— G. H. Hardy
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As no darkness can be seen by anyone surrounded by light, so no trivialities can capture the attention of anyone who has…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite…
— Niels Bohr
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with…
— George Eliot
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be…
— Walter Gropius
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What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
— Annie Dillard
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