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- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
- Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise…
- Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
- Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
- Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs…
- Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral…
- We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s…
- Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of…
- The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to…
- There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. It all depends on…
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