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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Beauty will save the world.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor Dostoevsky Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre GideAndre Gide Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That’s in your power.
John WoodenJohn Wooden Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Baruch SpinozaBaruch Spinoza Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
DemocritusDemocritus In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.
Viktor FranklViktor Frankl It is wrong to be sorry without ceasing.
HomerHomer We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness, and even death.
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