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«Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.»
«Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be»
Author: George Sheehan
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
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«There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?»
«We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Suffering
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«There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Greed,
Insecurity,
Jelousy,
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«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
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«Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates»
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