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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness



The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another



Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony



Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.



The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.



Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.



The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.



If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell



Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.



Faith is a light of such supreme brilliance that it dazzles the mind and darkens all its visions of other realities, but in the end when we become used to the new light, we gain a new view of all reality transfigured and elevated in the light itself.



Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real



When ambition ends, happiness begins.



Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.



The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.



The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.








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