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"We approach life not just to be able to think about it and talk about it and discover its truths, but also to enjoy it. And so a healthy life really isn't about abstinence or asceticism, it's about enjoying your time on this earth."
"The resurrection makes Christianity the most irritating religion on the face of the earth."
"The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy."
"I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something."
"Do you ever have the feeling you're a tourist on earth?"
"The object of our sojourns on earth, as apart from the gaining of experience, is but one. The loosing of ourselves from the coil of reincarnation, which, over and over again, brings us back to earth as on a coiled spring, until, having learned the last lesson of matter, leaped the last barrier, we are freed for ever from earth."
"Animals weren't put on this earth to entertain us."
"Please, amigo. We need you, Kimosabe, O Mighty Powerful One. We need you more than the earth rises in the west." The sun rises in the east, dickhead." Only if you're standing on the earth. If you're on the moon, the earth rises in the west."
"The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth."
"In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity"
"Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?"
"I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise."
"Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike."
"Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth."
"I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over."
"Love has earth to which she clings."
"Everything is cleansed and purified by the rains, and the Earth blossoms in beauty."
"There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness."
"Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail."
"Today I must dive deep within And know what I come To this earth-stage for."
