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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agr...more

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Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have re...more

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But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the s...more

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One never meets just Cancer, or War, or Unhappiness (or Happiness). One only meets each hour or moment that comes. All manner of ups and downs. Many b...more

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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

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You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talk...more

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The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of o...more

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If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of chil...more

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenl...more

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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and there...more

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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conf...more