The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNever let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one’s own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you-either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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