"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now."

Prince, Ray on want
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"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

Mitchell, Silas Weir on burdens
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"Simplicity is the seal of truth."

Proverb on simplicity
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"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem -- in my opinion -- to characterize our age."

Einstein, Albert on age and aging
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"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen."

Epictetus on opinions
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"Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one."

Sterling, John on pain
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"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves."

Proverb on soul
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"As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow -- perhaps it all will."

Einstein, Albert on war
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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hope
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"Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."

Morgan, John Pierpont on possibilities
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"If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely."

Maharshi, Ramana on thoughts and thinking   

"It is not enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such a source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it."

Maharshi, Ramana on meditation
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"Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind."

Maharshi, Ramana on limitation
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"You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all."

Maharshi, Ramana on thoughts and thinking
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"We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness
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"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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"Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."

Levine, Stephen on love
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"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"Believe that each day that shines on you is your last."

Horace on present
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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"Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before "

Wright, Steven on
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"I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering."

Wright, Steven on mind
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"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on enlightenment
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"What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always."

Shelton, Richard on change
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"It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit."

Billings, Josh on repentance   

"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it."

Hitchcock, Alfred on fear
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand."

Pound, Ezra on intelligence and intellectuals   

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

Orwell, George on goodness
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on fate
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"Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed."

Porter, Irene on change
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