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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness Health Sacrifice Other Kind Follies Greatest Any
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. Arthur Schopenhauer
Nature Women Enemies Men Indifferent Merely Another Women Are
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. Arthur Schopenhauer
Buy Time Good Books Would Would-Be Could Good Thing Also Read Them Thing
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk. Bertolt Brecht
Holding Setting Easier Rob Clerk Up Than Bank
The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. Bertolt Brecht
Top Bottom Fellows Always Victories Defeats
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht
News Laughs Bad Bad News He Heard Who
Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. Bertolt Brecht
Good Sometimes Good Taste Important More Than Taste Human
Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. Carl von Clausewitz
Nature Our Clarity Finds Uncertainty Longs Although Always Intellect Often Certainty Fascinating
To secure peace is to prepare for war. Carl von Clausewitz
War Peace Secure Secure Peace Prepare
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? David Hilbert
First Slept Thousand Would Would-Be Thousand Years Having Hypothesis Proven Were Been Years Question After Awaken
With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Life Patience Persistence Simple Become Fact Blazing Smallest Most How Begin Tiniest In Fact Spark Act Even Belief Consecrated Bonfire
I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
God Son Mind Ungrateful Think Savior Would Tried Atonement Only Marvel Finite Imperfect Perfectly Come Understand Up Often Impure Loves Explanation Us Deeply Save
To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Fruit Suffering Christ Cross Allegiance Exclusive Tragedy Endure Which Jesus Jesus Christ
Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix. Don Dokken
Ego Alcohol Bad Mix
If you are not living this moment, you are not really living. Eckhart Tolle
You Living Really Moment
The only thing you ever have is now. Eckhart Tolle
You Only The Only Thing Now Ever Thing
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you. Eckhart Tolle
You Mind Rightly Destructive Superb More Put Wrongly Instrument Becomes However Very Accurately Use Used Uses
Even the most seemingly unpleasant situations - if you become aligned with it, something good will emerge from that. Eckhart Tolle
Good You Will Become Aligned Unpleasant Emerge Seemingly Something Something Good Most Situations Even
Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet. Eckhart Tolle
God You Son Yes Just Realized Jesus
Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it. Eckhart Tolle
Prevail You Fear Mind Power Action Thinking Rise Preventing Take Taking Attention Between Doing Link Up Acknowledge Cannot Against Cuts Use Your Fully Now Present Watch
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence. Eckhart Tolle
You Soul Beyond Essence Being Form Your Who Presence Consciousness Innermost
Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism. Erich Honecker
Socialism Progress Neither Able Nor Donkey Ox Stop
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. Friedrich Nietzsche
Art Intoxication Indispensable Physiological Sort Aesthetic Exist Any Certain Activity
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. Friedrich Nietzsche
Book Ambition Others Say Ten Sentences Whole
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. Friedrich Nietzsche
Blame Power Judgment Our Later More Only Over Underestimated Praise Praised Causes Undeserved Than Being Reason Exposed Conscience
It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms. Friedrich Nietzsche
Few Nothing Worms Says Spirit Against
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