"Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world."
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"Even if you want one drop of respect you have to take birth in this material world again."
"Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion."
"I came to the conclusion that unless I found myself and became the change I wanted to see in the world - as Gandhi said - I couldn't contribute much, nor would there be anything fulfilling or meaningful in my life. So I went on a spiritual search."
"Lord's love manifests in this world as compasssion."
"If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy."
"Any propensity other than love cannot exist in the spiritual world. There is unlimited variegatedness, but they are all extraordinarily wonderful ways of expressing love."
"You deserve the place you have in this world. Do not let the eating disorder take that from you."
"Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human"
"Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you."
"Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is."
"Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope."
"No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation."
"From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now"
"I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it."
"I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead."
"But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence."
"It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered."
"things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting."
"One could think of ways to defeat the censor. I could put up the answers on my Facebook page or website or Counterpunch. In today's world it's not easy to suppress information. Technology has helped us a great deal."