A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Age considers; youth ventures.
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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
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Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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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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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
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We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price...
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We live in the world when we love it.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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