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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.  
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.  
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself...  
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incap...  
Don't forget to love yourself.  
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to ...  
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it ...  
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he...  
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they deman...  
I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will ...  
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says ...  
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can ei...  
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.  
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrat...  
It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the qua...  
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able ...  
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.   Experience
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - lo...  
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry pa...  
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting ...  
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth...  
Once you label me you negate me.  
One can advise comfortably from a safe port.  
Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has s...  
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new...  
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of t...  
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.  
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.   Religion
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.  
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change t...  
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only...  
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses in...  
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule beg...  
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know ...  
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose o...  
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer...  
When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "...