The Gentle Light
Quotes
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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I shall but love thee better after death.
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I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
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He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will.
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
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I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
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I do not wish them [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.
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You are to be proud of your enemy; then the success of your enemy is your success also.
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The tripod that supported the framework of Bushido was said to be Chi, Jin, Yu, respectively Wisdom, Benevolence, and Courage.
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A truly brave man is ever serene; he is never taken by surprise; nothing ruffles the equanimity of his spirit.
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True happiness comes from making others happy.
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
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Be not defeated by the rain, Nor let the wind prove your better. Succumb not to the snows of winter. Nor be bested by the heat of summer.
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With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes; When the butterfly co…
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If someone asks about my abode, I reply: The east edge of the Milky Way. Like a drifting cloud, bound by nothing, I just let go.
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My legacy — What will it be? Flowers in spring, The cuckoo in summer, And the crimson maples Of autumn.
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A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.