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Through prayer, you establish your attitude to the beginning of everything; you clarify your attitude toward people, your relationship with and your duties to them, and to the Father of all of us. —After the TALMUD

“How can you love those whom you are afraid of? God is love, and how can you be afraid of love?” —Tolstoy

If you want other people to speak well of you, do not speak well of yourself. —BLAISE PASCAL

What reward should a good deed bring you? Only the joy you receive by performing it. And any other reward lessens the feeling of this joy. He who does good to others makes the biggest gift to himself. —LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA

“To follow God is to want what He wants, and not to want what He does not want. How to achieve this? You have to understand and follow His laws.”—After EPICTETUS

The ideal is within you, and the obstacle to reaching this ideal is also within you. You already possess all the material from which to create your ideal self. —THOMAS CARLYLE

If beautiful art does not express moral ideas, ideas which unite people, then it is not art, but only entertainment. People need to be entertained in order to distance themselves from disappointment in their lives. —IMMANUEL KANT