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My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.
The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.
God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
This is not only a commandment but also a promise or reward.
I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.
Law must be viewed as a formless mass of isolated decisions.
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul
The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.
Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.
Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.
Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Man know thyself; then thou shalt know the Universe and God.
All human relations untouched by love take place in the dark
He whose faith never doubted, may justly doubt of his faith.
A light without shadow generates an emotion without reserve.
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
We will be victorious if we have not forgotten how to learn.
Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
Time's violence rends the soul, by the rent eternity enters.
Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are.
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.
The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener.
Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The truly simple way of presenting Christianity is to do it.
I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
He who chooses the infinite has been chosen by the infinite.
In the stillness of the mind I saw myself as I am - unbound.
All will happen as you want it, provided you really want it.
Having never left the house you are looking for the way home
All I plead with you is this: make love of your self perfect
History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.