"There are two means of refuge from..." - Quote by Albert Schweitzer
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
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“Preservation of life is the only true joy.”
“Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.”
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
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“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.”
“Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.”
“When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.”
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“We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.”
“One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability to establish goals to live out those dreams.”
“The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.”