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"I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
"I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on."
"The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life."
"The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God."
"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all."
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
"The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves."
"If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known."
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
"Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."
"When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her."
"A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep."
"Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not."
"Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy"
"Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness."
"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
"…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth."
"Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace."