"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."
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"A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives."
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"When we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible without being relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft, and true witnesses without being manipulative."
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"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."
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"We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'"
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"He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days."
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"I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal known as the harmonic series."
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"And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible."
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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
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"Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration."
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"My fellow Wilmington, North Carolina native Meadowlark Lemon is a true national treasure. I watched him play for the Harlem Globetrotters when I was growing up and his skill with the basketball and dedication to the game were an inspiration not only to me, but to kids all around the world."
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"Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off."
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"Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance."
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"If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of "darkness." I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth."
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"Critique by creating."
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"The magic moment is the moment when a 'yes' or a 'no' can change our whole existence."
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"Judging yourself to be full of virtue paralyses. Judging yourself to be full of guilt also paralyses."
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"He does not keep company with those who wish to harm him."
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"Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles."
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"Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings."
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