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We are not here to solve the problems the problems are here to solve us.

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Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing selves that are worth expressing.
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
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Work-life balance was a mistake from the start. Because we don't really want balance. We want satisfaction.
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The notion of freedom proclaimed by the modern world is anti-discipline. But true freedom cannot be separated from discipline.
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You cannot be healthy and happy without discipline. If you want to measure the level of happiness in your life, just measure the level of discipline in your life. You will never have more happiness than you have discipline.
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To be truly intimate with another person, is to share every aspect of yourself with that person.
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Love is a choice, love is an act of will, you can choose to love.
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When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too often we rush to judgment, race to argue, and overlook all the common ground we share.
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. Hope is one of those things that you can't buy, but that will be freely given to you if you ask. Hope is the one thing people cannot live without. Hope is a thing of beauty.
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Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.
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Catholicism is not a lifeless set of rules and regulations. Catholicism is a lifestyle. Catholicism is a way of life designed by God to help you become all you can be.
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Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
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Our essential purpose is to become the best version of ourselves.
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Never pass up an opportunity to speak a kind word of appreciation. There are six billion people on the planet, and 5.9 billion of them go to bed every night starving for one honest word of appreciation.
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You will learn more from your friends than you ever will from books. Choose your friends wisely
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When you stand still, you reject the struggle, and you refuse to change and grow. Ultimately, you reject fulfillment, happiness, the dance for joy and everything else that is eternally good.
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Your weaknesses are the key to the unimaginable bigger future that God has envisioned for you. Your strengths are probably already bearing all the fruit they can. They will continue to bear those good fruits in your life, but at some point they will begin to plateau. Your richer, more abundant future is intimately linked to your weaknesses.
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Discipline is the path to happiness.
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Superficiality is the curse of the modern world.
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Whether you are sixteen or sixty, the rest of your life is ahead of you. You cannot change one moment of your past, but you can change your whole future. Now is your time.
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