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Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Much harm has been done in the name of love, but no harm can be done in the name of respect.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be…including our perception of it

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

The greatest of all the accomplishments of 20th century science has been the discovery of human ignorance.

When you’re afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

I have been bent and broken, but I hope, into a better shape.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

Form follows function – that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Every day I wake up determined to deliver a better life for the people all across America that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned.

I came alone and I go as a stranger. I do not know who I am, nor what I have been doing.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not… but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.

If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Some blessings have been ours in the past, and these may be repeated or even multiplied.

We should reflect on the idea that since the beginning of time sentient beings have been mentally unstable because they have been slaves of delusion, they lack the eye of wisdom to see the path leading to nirvana and enlightenment, and they lack the necessary guidance of a spiritual teacher. Moment by moment they are indulging in negative actions, which will eventually bring about their downfall.

Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism. Politicians challenge it at their peril because of the lobby’s ability to influence political contributions.

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.