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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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When you say, 'I can’t do that,' you're expressing yourself incorrectly. You should say, 'I couldn’t do that before.'

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The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

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The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

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But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

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I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

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It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries—and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another.

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Every heart has its own skeletons.

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We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

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Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

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I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness.

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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

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What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.

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If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

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The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

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The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

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It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

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