"What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God."
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"The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment."
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"Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you."
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"How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine."
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"We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it."
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"It is the fellowship of the Cross to experience the burden of the other. If one does not experience it, the fellowship he belongs to is not Christian. If any member refuses to bear that burden, he denies the law of Christ."
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"There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value."
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"A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists."
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"Given the millions of billions of Earth-like planets, life elsewhere in the Universe without a doubt, does exist. In the vastness of the Universe we are not alone."
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"Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated."
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"But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly."
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"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
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"It's so difficult to feel comfortable in the body you have. You always want to look a different way, taller or thinner, whatever it may be. I still struggle with it. I think everybody does."
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"Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life."
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"Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul."
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"The voice of the intellect is soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endless rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which one may be optimistic about the future of mankind."
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"The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own."
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"Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke."
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"The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: "When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols.""
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"Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant."
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