Excerpts of Citations
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Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
~Mevlana Rumi
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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As for the Future, your task is not to foresee, but to enable it.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
~Jean Nicolas Grou
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If you ask him: "What is silence?" he will answer, "It is the Great Mystery! The holy silence is His voice!" If you ask: "What are the fruits of silence?" he will say: "They are self-control, true ...
~Charles Alexander Eastman
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Nearness to nature . . . keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.
~Charles Alexander Eastman
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The one thing that all the experimenters in psychokinesis, telepathy, and ESP, and all the borderline probings into the workings of the mind (which in our day are being undertaken with such astonis...
~Hugh Nibley
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It would be easy to say we were making up a story, if we didn't have a world to prove it.
~Hugh Nibley
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things beh...
~Henry David Thoreau
from Walden -
Is not life a hundred times too short to bore ourselves?
~Friedrich Nietzsche
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One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love.
~Leo Buscaglia