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What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

You can't speak Music with notes alone, but you can speak Music without notes at all!

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

The dirtier your Bible, the cleaner your heart!

what doesn't kill you not only make you stronger, but also more honest.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.

I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

Our expectation in ourselves must be higher than our expectation in others.

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

The love of Christ always helps us see beyond the faults of others.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

More important than starting well in our walk with God is to finish well.

Freedom keeps us soaring, but quarreling destroys our ability to fly.

In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.

A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.

A man who could not see the end of his"provisional existence" was not able to aim at an ultimate goal in life.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.

It is not about knowing, but about living.

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?

I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship.