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Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one’s self without thought of profit.

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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel one by…
Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when they presume…
To stay in one place and watch the seasons come and go is tanatmount to constant travel: One is traveling with the…
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has…
I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite…
The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism…
Books are not life, only its ashes.
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is…

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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect. — Naoki Higashida
To read a lot of trash mixing the blood of war with business’s stench. To root out any happiness. To go out,… — Etel Adnan
How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! — Charles Lamb
When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone… — Nicholas of Cusa
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. — Maria Montessori
The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the… — Maria Montessori
Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices — Shana Alexander
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off. — Alain de Botton
With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable… — Beverly Engel
It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and… — Iyanla Vanzant
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better… — Chris Hedges
I suspect it is for one’s self-interest that one looks at one’s surroundings and one’s self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander

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