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Never worry about anything. Live in the present. Live now. Be happy.
People don't just want to feel satisfied. They actually want to act.
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.
The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves.
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.
It is not by your actions that you will be saved, but by your being.
Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.
The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes.
Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.
If my tongue were trained to measures, I would sing a stirring song.
At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.
To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories.
And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul
The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.
All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates.
The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth.
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
Man ... feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light.
Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.
The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.
An honest man is always a child. [Lat., Semper bonus homo tiro est.]
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than himself.
The object of (Christian) faith is not the teaching but the Teacher.
You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.
...why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
In order to see, you have to stop being in the middle of the picture
[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.
Only the people who have gone beyond the world can change the world.