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Us Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
- Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which…
- If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.
- And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges…
- In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.
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- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz