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#1

“God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.”
― Paul Valéry

tags: god, life

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#2

“You could not be born at a better period than the present, when we have lost everything.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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#3

“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
― Antonio Gramsci

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#4

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

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#5

“I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.”
― Anne Lamott

tags: inspirational-grace

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#6

“All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Julian of Norwich

tags: hope-springs-eternal

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#7

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
― Meister Eckhart

tags: beginner, beginning, fresh-start, morning, start-fresh, teachable, willingness

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#8

“you can’t fool all the people all the time,” but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.”
― Will Durant, The Lessons of History

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#9

“Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.”
― David Hume

tags: politics

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#10

“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”
― Teresa of Avila

tags: inspirational

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#11

“They can be like the sun, words.
They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
― St. John of the Cross, The Poems of St. John of the Cross

tags: language, sun, words

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#12

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
― Betrand Russell

tags: happiness, realism, reality

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#13

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

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#14

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
― Rumi

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#15

“Finally, I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.”
― Thomas Merton

tags: inspiration, meaning-of-life

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#16

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Introduction to the Book of Job

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#17

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
― Thomas Merton

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#18

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

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#19

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
― Martin Buber

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#20

“I have found the world kinder than I expected, but less just.”
― Samuel Johnson

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#21

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”
― Edward Gibbon

tags: love, reading, treasures

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#22

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

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#23

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#24

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: clemency, forgiveness, justice, legal-system, mandatory-sentences, mercy

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#25

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”
― Martin Buber

tags: honesty, hope, insignt, recovery, redemption

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#26

“There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: desire, life

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#27

“Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness. ”
― Simone Weil

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#28

“If a man wishes to be sure of the road he’s traveling on, then he must close his syes and travel in the dark.”
― St. John of the Cross

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#29

“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”
― Meister Eckhart

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#30

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

tags: inspirational

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