"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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"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
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"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
-Denis Waitley
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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas Carlyle
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