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Quote by Anaïs Nin
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete an

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin

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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. – Anaïs Nin

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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. – Aristotle

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All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today. – Pope Paul VI

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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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