I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.

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No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.

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You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

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What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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Hope is a slow business.

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When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

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