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The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Work is love made visible.
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Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
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You are good when you strive to give of yourself.
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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.