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The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.


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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.



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



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



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



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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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I would stay in New York, I told him, just six months, and I could see the Brooklyn Bridge from my window. As it turned out the bridge was the Triborough, and I stayed eight years.



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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.



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Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.



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I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.



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