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"The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror."
"The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom."
"To be able to concentrate for a considerable time is essential to difficult achievement."
"That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life all around me. I also write because when I am writing I reach the high moment of fusion sought by the mystics, the poets, the lovers, a sense of communion with the universe."
"I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its essential spellbinding power, for its mysterious possibilities have been forgotten."
"I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed."
"A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies."
"A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures."
"Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us."
"In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential."
"Renouncing things is less difficult than people believe: it's all a matter of getting started. Once you've succeeded in dispensing with something you thought essential, you realize you can also do without something else, then without many other things."
"Being successful as a creative person is a crapshoot, but it's essential if you feel drawn to being creative that you express it."
"A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch."
"Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey."
"He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences."
"Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected."
"It is essential that we stop worrying about money and stop resenting our bills."
"The essential in this time of moral poverty is to create enthusiasm."
"Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love."
"I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process."
