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We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
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Act Hurt Kindness Optimistic Ourselves People
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.
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Choices Direction God World Worship
Stars and blossoming fruit-trees: utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity.
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Forever Fragile Fruit Star
A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.
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Beautiful Believe Herself Image Ugly Woman
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Attention Giving Happiness Inspirational People
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.
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Attention One Liner Prayer
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
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Boredom Evil Happiness Imagination Reality
It is not through the way in which someone speaks about God that I can see whether that person has passed through the crucible of Divine Love, but through the way the person speaks to me about things here on earth.
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Divine Earth God Love Myself Talk Way
If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.
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Himself Lose Men Money
A man thinks he is dying for his country,” said Anatole France, “but he is dying for a few industrialists.” But even that is saying too much. What one dies for is not even so substantial and tangible as an industrialist.
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Country Death Industry Men Thinking
It is only necessary to know that love is a direction and not a state of the soul. If one is unaware of this, one falls to despair at the first onslaught of affliction.
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Direction Fall Love Oneself Soul
A mind enclosed in language is in prison.
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Language Mindset Prison
The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.
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Civilization Intellectual Ourselves Reality
Power is the supreme end for all those who have not understood.
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End Power Understand
God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
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Imagination Life Make Up Reality

We are like plants which have the one choice of being in or out of the light.

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