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Mother Teresa Missionary, Nun
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"Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him."

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet
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"It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth."

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
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"I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well."

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Michelangelo Sculptor, Painter, Architect, Poet
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"The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
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"Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth."

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Clarence Jordan Theologian
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"Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'"

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