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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return."

"I don't know Who - or what - put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone - or Something - and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal."

"It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses."

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy."

"Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away."

"Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard."

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

"In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us."

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

"The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being."

"Time goes by, reputation increases, ability declines."

"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision."

"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."

"Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon."

"The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?"

"The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned."
Peace

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them."

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