“You are only as touched my the magic of this life as you want to be.”
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“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”
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“You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you”
― Autobiography of a Yogi
― Autobiography of a Yogi
“I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
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