Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
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Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery.
I know that my books are worthy, which is separate from me.
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being.
People know that pursuing a mission without achieving results is dispiriting; achieving results without a mission is meaningless.
Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.
I know it's easier to portray a world filled with cynicism and anger, where problems are solved with violence...It's an easy out. What's a whole lot tougher is to offer alternatives, to present other ways conflicts can be resolved, and to show you can have a positive impact on your world. To do that, you have to put yourself out on a limb, take chances, and run the risk of being called a do-gooder.
Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
Love is too young to know what conscience is.
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
When Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can't explain... I don't need to. I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician
Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise.
People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.
Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.
We shall be better, braver, and _x000D_ more active if we believe it right to _x000D_ look for what we don't know.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
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