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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
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