“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.”
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“I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses.”
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“Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”
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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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