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I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

Teresa of Avila

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To want to become angels while we are still on earth ... is ridiculous.
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Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
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There is more security in self-denial, mortification, and other like virtues, than in an abundance of tears.
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Pain is never permanent.
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How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.
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The important thing is not to think much but to love much do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.
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No one should think or say anything of another which he would not wish thought or said of himself.
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If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Patience obtains everything.
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What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change.
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