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Why Painful Things Happen to Good People

By Gary Zukav — 2013

Understanding how caretaking is different from caregiving.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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One always feel better when one has made up one’s mind.

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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

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Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

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