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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow."

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Ray Bradbury Author
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"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."

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"Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence."

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter
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"When we lose people we love, we should never disturb their souls, whether living or dead. Instead. we should find consolation in an object that reminds you of them, something...I don't know...even an earring"

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Confucius Philosopher
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"Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you."

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