"Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life."
-Paul Tillich
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"Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."
-Paul Tillich
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"Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite."
-Paul Tillich
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"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
-Paul Tillich
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"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
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"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
-Charles M. Schulz
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