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“Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.”
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“People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.”
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“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
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“The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.”
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“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.”
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