""Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable"."
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"All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded."
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"Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs"
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"I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."
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"Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you're automatically a role model ... I have no problem being a role model. I love it. I have kids looking up to me and hopefully I inspire these kids to do good things."
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"It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being."
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"You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way"
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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
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"There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?"
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"It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
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"We are always learning from each others. Only when we merge inside God would we stop learning. We will understand more as we teach others, so we rely on teaching in order to learn for ourselves."
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"We still did not answer the questions that are important to us"
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"All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so."
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"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
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"View life as a continuous learning experience."
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"There's so many things to explore in life, and if you don't have that inspiration or motivation to do it, then don't force yourself. Take that time to do whatever else you need to do. That inspiration or motivation will always come back and when it does, it's always stronger."
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"Ah, music, sacred tongue of God! I hear thee calling and I come."
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"Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars."
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"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."
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"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."
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