The people who know God well–mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God–always meet a lover, not a dictator.

Richard Rohr
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  3. One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error. - Hermann Hesse

  4. Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft. The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather. Gutman: That may be true. But what can you do about it? Byron: Make a departure. Gutman: From yourself? Byron: From my... - Tennessee Williams

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  1. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

  2. What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

  3. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  4. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  5. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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