"To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself."
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"It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."
"Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes."
"Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful."
"All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else."
"I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to."
"What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?"
"All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe"
"Never be shaken, no matter what happens or what others may say. Never be flustered; never lose confidence. This is the way we should strive to live our lives. Being able to do so is a sign of genuine character."
"There are neither winners nor losers; there are only stages that must be gone through. When the human heart understands this, it is free and able to accept difficult times without being deceived by moments of glory"
"Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms."
"Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value."
"I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom."
"Talent is being able to sell what you're feeling."
"The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own"
"Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able."
"Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing."
"Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole life with that person. Liking somebody is just like, 'Okay, I like them because of this, this and this, but I don't knkow if I am ready to be in love with them'."
"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives."
"Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come into full ralization of your own awakened interior powers is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it."