You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed
in a human experience.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on
good terms with others
than being ill at ease
with yourself.

—Honoré de Balzac

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I never knew God lived so close to the floor.

—Sheila Walsh

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The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

—Jean Nicholas Grou

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something
no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

—Christopher Morley

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God is not disillusioned
with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

—Luis Palau

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Think of times in your life that made you wish for all
the world that you had the power to make time stand still…something in your
heart says, Finally—it has come. This is what I was made for!

—John Eldredge

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The awareness of
loneliness might be a gift
we must protect and guard, because our loneliness reveals to us an inner emptiness that can be destructive when misunderstood, but filled
with promise for him who
can tolerate its sweet pain.

—Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Though no one can go
back and make a brand
new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand-new ending.

—Carl Bard

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Everybody needs beauty
as well as bread, places to
play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.

—John Muir

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Pasta means never having
to say you're hungry.

—Sarah Ford