The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
Albert Camus
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I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
Elizabeth Janeway
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
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Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)
Rene Descartes
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Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve
Erich Fromm
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We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
D.H. Lawrence
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There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not
Rabindranath Tagore
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
St. Basil
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Chekhov
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
Quentin Crisp
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
Carson Mccullers
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Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
M. R. Dehaan
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Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles A. Garfield
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