"If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things."
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"If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things."
"In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith."
"There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind."
"Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth."
"The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it."
"If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others."
"Right attitudes produces right action"
"Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with"
"Men like to to count their troubles; few calculate their happiness."
"Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
"There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable."
"Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty."
"Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound."
"What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"
"Only the heart knows how to find what is precious."
"God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face."
"A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others."
"One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others."
"Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams."
"It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy."