The really important thing is not to live, but to live well… and to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly.

Socrates

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When you make a choice, you change the future.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.

Looking deeper, we could say that the real cause of suffering is not being able to tolerate uncertainty—and thinking that it's perfectly sane, perfectly normal, to deny the fundamental groundlessness of being human.

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God has entrusted me with myself.

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