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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princes who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

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The only journey is the one within.

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

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Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart And try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers that cannot be given For you would not be able to live them And the point is to live everything Live the questions now And perhaps without knowing it You will live along some day into the answers.

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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

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For one human being to love another that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for whichall other work is but preparation.

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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting.

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At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves ... Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point it, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

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Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchiesand even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heartI would be consumed in that overwhelming existenceFor beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure.and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it blame yourself admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.

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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches for the Creator, there is no poverty.

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...perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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