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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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  Beautiful, Life Lesson, Things In Life

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• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

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  Silence, World, Modern

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• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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  Life Is Good, Bad Ass, Expression

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• God creates everything out of nothing. And everything which God is to use, he first reduces to nothing

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  Use, Firsts

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• The door to happiness opens outward.

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  Doors

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• It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

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  Understanding, Duty, Humans

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1847.

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• It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion

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  Passion, Lost, Loses

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• Once you label me you negate me.

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  Inspirational, Life, Names

  "Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling", Vol. 2 by American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, p. 33, 1976.

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• And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

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  Life, Loneliness, Simple

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• Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.

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  Heart, Soul, Wish

  "Ethics and Aesthetics in European Modernist Literature". Book by D.R. Ellison, p.51, 2001.

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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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  Confusing, Strange, Complicated

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• The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

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  Believe, People, Investing

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• A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

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  Love, Prayer, Men

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• Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

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  Crowds, Untruth

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• Confidence is the present tense of hope.

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  Tense, Present Tense

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• In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.

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  Thinking, Fire, Theatre

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• The greatest danger to Christianity is, I contend, not heresies, not heterodoxies, not atheists, not profane secularism - no, but the kind of orthodoxy which is cordial drivel, mediocrity served up sweet. There is nothing that so insidiously displaces the majestic as cordiality.

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  Christian, Sweet, Atheist

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• For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.

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  Risk, Greater

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• To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

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  Life, Success, Courage

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• I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

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  People, Misunderstood

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• The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

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  Remember, Painful, States

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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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  People, Tasks, Sometimes

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• The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

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  Truth Is, Traps

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• A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

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  Men, Understanding, Suffering

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• Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

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  Love, Truth, Thinking

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