"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."
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"The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see."
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"Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed."
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"Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?"
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"The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young."
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"Live each day as if it be your last."
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"There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften."
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"Whatever happens, every individual is a child of his time; so philosophy too is its own time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as absurd to fancy that a philosophy can transcend its contemporary world as it is to fancy that an individual can overleap his own age, jump over Rhodes."
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"Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art."
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"The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now."
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"What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity."
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"Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all.""
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"In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains."
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"One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world."
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"Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."
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"The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still."
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"Once we have found ourselves, we must understand how from time to time to lose--and then to find--ourselves once again: assuming,that is, that we are thinkers. For a thinker it is a drawback to be bound to a single person all the time."
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."
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"We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming."
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"Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years"
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