There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.Anais Nin
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Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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If happiness is the absence of fever then I will never know happiness. For I am posessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.Anais Nin
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I live my life in widening circles
That reach out across the world.Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
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Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.E.M. Forster
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There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.Franklin P. Adams
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I am learning to see. I don’t know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn’t stop where it once used to.Rainer Maria Rilke
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.Buddha
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When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet
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