“Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.”
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Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.