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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
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Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
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Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.
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Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.
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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
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Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
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The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
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