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You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
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You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.
I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.
Sometimes I think leave me alone. What have I done to you for you to attack me in such away. It really hurts my heart.
Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Each I not only perceives, has not only experiences that posit intuitive existence, but also it has a more or less clear or confused knowledge; it thinks, it predicates and, as a scientific person, each I does science. Thereby, the I knows itself as one which sometimes judges correctly, one which sometimes falls into error, as one which occasionally succumbs to doubts and confusions, and also as one which occasionally presses on to clear conviction.
I've had people come to me, and after meeting me, they start crying. I say, "Why are you crying?" They say, "Because I thought you would be stuck up, but you're the nicest person." I say, "Who gave you this judgment?" They tell me they read it. I tell them, "Don't you believe what you read."
It is uncomfortable to ask condemned people about their sentences just as it is awkward to ask wealthy people why they need so much money, why they use their wealth so poorly, and why they don't just get rid of it when they recognize that it is the cause of their unhappiness.
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.