"The best feeling in the world is knowing that you actually mean something to someone."
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"Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it."
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"As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him."
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"In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth."
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"Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from."
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"Into this universe, and why not knowing Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as wind along the wate, I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing."
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"Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health."
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"Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life."
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"The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object."
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"Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins."
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"Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes-circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and wonder how the contriving of it came to be originally thought out and planned. Whereas there was no such planning, there was only a law: the ball once started, all the circumstances that happened to lie in its path would help to build it, in spite of themselves."
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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."
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"Congress should fund research on the effects that violent video games have on young minds... We don't benefit from ignorance. We don't benefit from not knowing the science."
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"What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him."
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"Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room."
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"Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously."
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"Conscience, as a mentor, the guide and compass of every act, leads ever to happiness. When the individual can stay alone with his or her conscience and get its approval, without knowing force or specious knowledge, then he or she begins to know what real happiness is."
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"The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything."
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"The greatest leverage you can create for yourself is the pain that comes from inside, not outside. Knowing that you have failed to live up to your own standards for your life is the ultimate pain."
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"You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean"
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