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" A daydream is an evasion. "
Daydream
Evasion
Dreams
" Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments. "
Advertising
Products
Reverence
" A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. "
Live
You
End
" Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. "
Lose
Find
Art
" Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. "
Just
Love
Anything
" Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. "
Soul
Joy
Heart
" By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet. "
Music
God
Blue
" Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. "
Death
Chill
Light
" Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. "
Life
Inspirational
Soul
" Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. "
Happiness
Matter
Balance
" I brought all the instincts of a writer with me into the monastery. "
Writer
Instincts
Me
" I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me. "
Body
Me
My Own
" If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. "
History
Political
Hell
" In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. "
Life
Meaning
Responsibility
" Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. "
Courage
God
Presence
" Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. "
Alone
Destiny
Love Is
" Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. "
Love
Care
Take Care
" October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. "
Go
October
Time
" On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world. "
Day
Down
Great
" Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. "
Peace
Truth
Sacrifice
" Perhaps I am stronger than I think. "
Think
Stronger
Strength
" Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. "
Makes
Real
Us
" Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. "
Future
Solitude
You
" The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. "
Reflection
Relationship
Love
" The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. "
Human
Too
Temptation
" The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error. "
Truth Is
Myself
Step
" The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. "
Learning
Least
Work
" The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. "
You
Less
Squeeze
" The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. "
My Life
Me
Life
" The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. "
Awareness
Involved
Compassion
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