"For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith."
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"It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live."
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"Once you label me you negate me."
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"How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?"
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"Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others."
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"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
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"To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it."
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"Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death."
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"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived."
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"It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories."
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"The question is not "To be or not to be," it is what we should be until we are not."
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"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
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"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
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"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
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"Hope is passion for what is possible."
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"Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already."
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"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."
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"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts."
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