"Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing."
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"If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion."
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"Nobody can build the bridge for you to walk across the river of life, no one but you yourself alone. There are, to be sure, countless paths and bridges and demi-gods which would carry you across this river; but only at the cost of yourself; you would pawn yourself and lose. There is in the world only one way, on which nobody can go, except you: where does it lead? Do not ask, go along with it."
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"What people have to realize is that if one has a firm belief in God and the spirit then one does not make statements that are negative and untrue."
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"God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are."
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"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."
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"Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have"
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"Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved."
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"Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?"
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"The greatest astonishment of my life was the discovery that the man who does the work is not the man who gets rich"
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"God does not leave you wondering whether you are saved or not. He tells you outright that you are His and that nothing can ever separate you from the love of Christ. Not even sin because His blood is greater than your sin!"
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"The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees."
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"How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray."
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"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity."
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"Who does Not Know the Truth, is simply a Fool... Yet who Knows the Truth and Calls it a Lie, is a Criminal."
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"Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot."
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"The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity."
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"We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom."
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"Handsome is as handsome does"
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"Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change."
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