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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Angry Cruelty Direct Effect
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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

Come Happiness May Prepare
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The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Acquaintance Beginning Definite Get
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Ask Certainty Deed Done
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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Compare Each Expect Experience
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters

After Longer Rather Read
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Dead Forgotten Never Our
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Best Failure Fear Hugging
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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Be True Best Failure Knows
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Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

Agreement Delightful Friendships Liking
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Break Desire Future No Future
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Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Anything Detect Fold Heart
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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Does Done Forward Important
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More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Forsake Helpful Human More
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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Dreary Life Makes Motive
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Been Duties Find Might
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Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
Fly Our Where Wings
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
Abstain Blessed Evidence Fact
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Been It Is Never Too Late Late Might
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Brought Done Great Great Things
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Another Duty Fulfill Power
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Agreeable Animals Ask Criticisms
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There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

Account Country Deal Explanation
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Always Asked Being Between
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I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
About Childbirth Get Like
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Every Expect Experience Important
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Allowing Although Both Closet
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Always Anything Away Being
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Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Hear Me Only Saying
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Contact God Inspiration Itself
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

Bus Detroit Get Take
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Always Becomes Born Important
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Accident Belief Born Find
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Away Born Deal Got
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When I look at my life, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those I didn't want to go anywhere near them.

Anywhere Free Go Got
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
Never Our Out Plans
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My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Brings Closer Found God
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As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

Barriers Beat Begin Between
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The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

Busy Doing Head Heart
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The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Body Example I See Like
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I sit with people who are dying. I'm one of those unusual types that enjoys being with someone when they're dying because I know I am going to be in the presence of Truth.

Am Because Being Dying
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

Being Breath Death Dying
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I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

Around Because Feel Focus
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I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.
All Day Day Every Guru
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Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

Being Death Down Get
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
Go I Can Over Skype
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The stroke has given me another way to serve people. It lets me feel more deeply the pain of others; to help them know by example that ultimately, whatever happens, no harm can come. 'Death is perfectly safe,' I like to say.

Another Another Way Come Death
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You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Content Discontent Even Moving
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.

Because Come Each Friendship
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Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
Bit Each Finds His
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