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Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. – Saint Augustine

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Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. – Saint Augustine

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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill

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But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion. – Amy Grant

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Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience lifes deepest joy: true fulfillment. – Tony Robbins

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I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went through my fair share of hard times thereafter. Also, one of my really good friends committed suicide when I was in high school. – Brittany Snow

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its not really any very heady fame. – Peter Carey

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If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. – David Suzuki

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