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Quote by Paulo Coelho

“You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“I gave examples from my clinical practice of how love was not wholly a thought or feeling. I told of how that very evening there would be some man sitting at a bar in the local village, crying into his beer and sputtering to the bartender how much he loved his wife and children while at the same time he was wasting his family's money and depriving them of his attention. We recounted how this man was thinking love and feeling love--were they not real tears in his eyes?--but he was not in truth behaving with love.”

Source: Glimpses of the Devil: A Psychiatrist's Personal Accounts of Possession, Exorcism, and Redemption

“Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself as well as from others than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture”

People Way Wells Christian Form Culture Evil Found Church Oneself Primaries Motive Visible Disguise Better Ways Evil People Deacons

Book:People of the Lie

Source: People of the Lie

“Freedom is based on the anarch’s awareness that he can kill himself. He carries this awareness around; it accompanies him like a shadow that he can conjure up. “A leap from this bridge will set me free.”

Awareness Shadow Bridges Carrie Leap Accompany

Author:Ernst Junger

“Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.”

Way Goal Occasions Disappointed Sparks Fades Consuming Fuse

Author:Ernst Junger

“The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.”

Doe Purpose Individual Existence Rate Chains Links Multiple Multiple Personalities Volition

Book:General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

Source: General Psychological Theory: Papers on Metapsychology

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