There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
JAMES A. BALDWINYou think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
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The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
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At four o’clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.
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If the word ‘integration’ means anything, this is what it means that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.
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Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
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If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.
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I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
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It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one’s own: in the face of one’s victim, one sees oneself.
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The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.
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You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]
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Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.
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The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
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… every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
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There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one–you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.
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If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you’ll never make it.
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