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“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
― The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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