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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured…
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry;…
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He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience;…
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.
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Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
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The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show…
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little…
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Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are…
— Bokar Rinpoche
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Melting our attachment to self is the most powerful medication for bringing mental and emotional imbalances in check.
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching…
— Byron Katie
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Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the…
— Sue Grafton
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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and…
— Jane Austen
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We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.…
— Pema Chodron
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Turning a close relationship into a path of self-liberation necessitates a change in our perception of our partner. Instead of seeing our…
— Pacifiersucker
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Our suffering comes from our attachment to people and things, our repeated attempts to find something lasting where there is nothing lasting…
— Unknown Author
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