What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMen make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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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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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.
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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason.
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