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I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place. ↗

— John Buchan

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How can something as fragile as a word build the whole world? ↗

— Franny Billingsley

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I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ↗

— Anonymous

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Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have. ↗

— Reinhold Messner

#life #meaning-of-life #inspirational

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational #self-control #inspirational

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free. ↗

— Emmet Fox

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When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! ↗

— Kate Chopin

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