We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
SYDNEY J. HARRISWhen I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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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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If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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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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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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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.
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There is no such thing as an “atrocity” in warfare that is greater than the atrocity of warfare itself.
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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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