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“We are perishing for want of wonder, not for want of wonders.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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“We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles

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“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” ― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America

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“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.” ― G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

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“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi

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“When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely any one in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.” – Unknown

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“People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people, is a secondary consideration.” – Bertrand Russell

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“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Viktor Frankl

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“What is to give light must endure burning.” – Viktor Frankl

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“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.” – Viktor Frankl

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“Pleasure is, and must remain, a side effect or by-product, and is destroyed and spoiled to the degree to which it is made a goal in itself.” – Viktor Frankl

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“Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.” – Viktor Frankl

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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl

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“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfil the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.” – Viktor Frankl

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“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” – Viktor Frankl

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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor Frankl

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“A life of short duration could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.” – Viktor Frankl

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“As to the causation of the feeling of meaninglessness, one may say, albeit in an oversimplifying vein, that people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.” – Viktor Frankl

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“The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her life.” – Viktor Frankl

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