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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst
are full of passionate intensity."
-William Butler Yeats
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"Love is to leave somebody alone, but with kindness and care."
-Unknown
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within,"
-Gandhi
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"If we do what we like doing, we are immediately rewarded by the pleasure of doing it. If we do what
we don't like doing the reward must come later. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics."
"Constant awareness of the inevitability of death is the only means to
acquire the urgency to override the robot."
-Gurdjieff
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most aggreable."
"Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
-Francis Bacon
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source
of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed."
"Do not worry about your problems with mathematics, I assure you mine are far
greater."
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these
aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of
mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
"True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness
and righteousness."
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and
the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self."
"Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral
universe within."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life
on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
-Einstein
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"Man must have just enough faith in himself to have adventures, and just enough doubt to
enjoy them."
-G.K. Chesterton, England
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We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa
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Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
-Alexander Pope
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought thousands of times;
But to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly,
Until they take root in our personal experience."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it
were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Leaving someone isn't the worst thing you can do to a person. It doesn't
have to be a tragedy. If you never left anything or anyone, there would be
no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an act of infidelity--
to others, to the past, to old notions of yourself. Perhaps everyday should
contain at least one essential infidelity. It would be an optimistic,
hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future--a declaration that things
can be not only different but better.
- Hanif Kureishi