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Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.


Marcel Proust
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?
William Blake
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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Paul Westerberg
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The power of the priesthood heals, protects, and inoculates all of the righteous against the powers of darkness.
Sheri L. Dew
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Art is the triumph over chaos.


John Cheever
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The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
Edmund White
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.


H. L. Mencken
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.


Marcus Aurelius
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.


Damon Galgut
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
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Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.
Ezra Taft Benson
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.


Herbert Hoover
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.


Federica Montseny
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco
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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.
George Fox
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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Margaret Fuller
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort
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