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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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I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slaver...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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If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)...

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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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Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.

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The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

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What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to r...more

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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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Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these n...more