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It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

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It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #church #expectations #god #happiness

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes. ↗

— Dale Renton

#relationships #life

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#life

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #god #jesus-christ #philosophy #satan