"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
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"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
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"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
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"God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners."
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"Don't forget to love yourself."
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
-C. S. Lewis
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"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
-Albert Einstein
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
-John Keats
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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