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“He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.”
Source : Thomas Fuller (1831). “The Holy and Profane States: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.156
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“When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.”
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“One step at a time is enough for me. Impatience is simply a way of beating yourself up.”
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“We dedicate ourselves to working with our neighbors, near and far, day in and day out, to building that peaceful society in which the tragedies we have known are a bad memory and a continuing warning.”
Source : Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.
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“The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.”
Source : Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing
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“Answer July- Where is the Bee- Where is the Blush- Where is the Hay? Ah, said July- Where is the Seed- Where is the Bud- Where is the May- Answer Thee-Me-”
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“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.”
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“What I was able to bring to the Christian part of it was the humanism and the humanistic point of view. It was the hook in terms of being able to make that adjustment. I wasn't born Buddhist, so I do have some other traditions to pull from.”