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"The worst thing
that can happen to you is to cut yourself loose from
people. And the best thing is to sort of vaccinate
yourself right into the big streams and blood of the
people. To feel like you know the best and the worst of
folks that you see everywhere and never to feel weak, or
lost, or even lonesome anywhere. There is just one thing
that can cut you to drifting from the people, and that's
any brand or style of greed. There is just one way to
save yourself, and that's to get together and work and
fight for everybody." "Why should we be in such
desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate
enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his
companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different
drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away." "The Constitution
only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have
to catch it yourself." "If you would be loved, love and
be lovable." "Write the bad things that are
done to you in sand, but write the good things that
happen to you on a piece of marble." "All great truths begin as
blasphemies." "Be courteous to all, but intimate
with few, and let those few be well tried before you give
them your confidence." "A government is like fire: a
handy servant, but a dangerous master." "You will find as you look back
upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit
of love." "An education isn't how much you
have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's
being able to differentiate between what you know and
what you don't." "This is my simple religion. There
is no need for temples; no need for complicated
philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness." "When you get to the end of your
rope, tie a knot and hang on." "Keep away from people who try to
belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but
the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great." "When you cannot get a compliment
any other way, pay yourself one." "I'm sorry. If you were right, I
would agree with you." "A man should never be ashamed to
own that he has been wrong, which is but saying, in other
words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday." "Do not be too timid and squeamish
about your actions. All life is an experiment." "Imitation is suicide." "When you can't have what you
want, it's time to start wanting what you have." "The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself a fool." "Love is how we feel toward those
who show us that which is lovable about ourselves." "The value of life lies not in the
length of days, but in the use we make of them." "It is not how much we have, but
how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." "Even if you're on the right
track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." "Ulcers are what people get from
mountain climbing over molehills." "Happiness is not a state to
arrive at, but a manner of travelling." "It's all right letting yourself
go, as long as you can get yourself back." "Sticks and stones only break
bones. Words can shatter the soul. A little, quiet,
picked-on 10-year-old runs away because the kids on the
bus laugh at him. A sensitive ninth-grader flips out
because a group of self-rising girls decide to throw her
to the wolves. We tell ourselves it takes more than that
to send someone over the edge. Maybe so, maybe not." "A man who values a good night's
rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he
can help it." "He who has a why to live can bear
with almost any how." "Evermore people today have the
means to live, but no meaning to live for." |