Quote by Franz Kafka
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. – Franz Kafka

Other quotes by Franz Kafka

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it. – Franz Kafka

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Happiness
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There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie. – Franz Kafka

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People who dont see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools. – Bodhidharma

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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills. – Ambrose Bierce

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God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars. – Author unknown, commonly attributed to Martin Luther

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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands. – Marquis de Sade

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Whats done to children, they will do to society. – Karl A. Menninger

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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. – Omar Khayyam

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Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed. – Mary Stuart Masterson

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