"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."

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Source : "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.

Theodore Parker

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“You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.69, D & M Publishers
“Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being.”
“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”

Source : "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.
“Hands, are the most honest part of the human body, they cannot lie as laughing eyes and the mouth can.”
“Must we always talk for victory, and never once for truth, for comfort, and joy?”
“Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love.”
“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?”
“Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make decisions. It means loving in the deepest sense of the word. The truth is that we don't want to be saved in the way God has chosen; we want to keep absolute control over our every step, to be fully conscious of our decisions, to be capable of choosing the object of our devotion.”

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