"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.“

-Thomas Merton

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"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

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"By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."

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"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."

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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

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"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

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"Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience."

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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-Thomas A. Edison

"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!"

-Coco Chanel

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

-Leo Tolstoy

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."

-Woody Allen

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

-Albert Camus

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."

-Lao Tzu