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Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion ↗

— Ziggy Marley

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When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ↗

— Jacob A. Riis

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Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. ↗

— Solanus Casey

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

— Reinhold Messner

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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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Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened. ↗

— Wayne Muller

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Patience can be bitter but her fruit is always sweet. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

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