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Stop thinking and start looking.


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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.



Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.



‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.



The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds



Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.



In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.

In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.



People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.



Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.



Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.



It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.

It is my belief, that we should not be too sure of having found Christ in ourselves until we have found him also in that part of humanity that is most remote from our own.





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The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth.

The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth.



Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.

Writing is my passion, not my job. I need to write as much as I need to breathe, if not more.



Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.



I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love.

I mean a racist, hate-filled host who is openly trying to get people to be violent would have zero viewers in the America I know and love.



And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.



Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.



He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.

He who does not know how to deceive does not know how to rule.



He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.



Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.




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