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- I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.
- Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
- The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
- It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.
- Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings…
- In the long run there is no more liberating, no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely, and then act boldly.
- I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
- No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt…
- More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
- To some of us, hunger was more academic than real, but we must try to develop the ability to feel the urgency of such a…
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are…
- It is not more vacation we need - it is more vocation.
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once,…
- Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about…
- The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have…
- ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention…
- If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
- If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
- Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a…
- Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one…
- Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life…
- He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
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