"Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind."
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"There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us.""
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"Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are."
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"Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment."
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"To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne."
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"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."
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"There is as much confusion in the world of the gods as in ours."
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"Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be "Stands in Confusion"."
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"We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both."
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"Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination."
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"The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning."
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"Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things."
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"The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us."
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"You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence."
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"Each person must decide for himself what he wants each day. As a leader, I will expose you to the options and the likely consequences of those options. I'll even share my opinion if asked, but I'll never confuse it with the opinion, which simply doesn't exist."
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"Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity."
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"You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great."
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"Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation."
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"I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ."
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"Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness."
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