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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

Teresa of Avila

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
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Fruit Run Tree Water
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
But the fact is, things always seem to come slowly when you are longing for them.
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Fact Slow Yourself
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
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Earth Heaven Hotel Light Night Serious Suffering Worst
Never do anything which you could not do in the sight of all.
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See Sight Yourself
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
All the troubles of the Church, all the evils in the world, flow from this source: that men do not by clear and sound knowledge and serious consideration penetrate into the truths of Sacred Scripture.
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Evil Flow Knowledge Man Serious Trouble Truth World
What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Company God Goodness Greatness People Place
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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Act Kindness Soul
Love turns work into rest.
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Love One Liner Work
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
From moment to moment one can bear much.
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Moments Oneself

This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

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