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" To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. "

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" Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. "

" 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. "

" Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God. "

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" 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. "

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" When ambition ends, happiness begins. "

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