"When the striving ceases, there is life waiting as a gift."
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"You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear."
"Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead."
"What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some."
"Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all."
"When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?"
"Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts."
"It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift."
"It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying."
"When we really live truth, we will cease to talk about it."
"Paradoxically, when 'dumb' money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb."
"We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not."
"What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death."
"Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed."
"Like the children we will never ever cease to be."
"Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides."
"Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective."
"Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist."
"If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own."
"The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer."