The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
CARSON MCCULLERSOnce you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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They are the we of me.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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