Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMarriages 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 art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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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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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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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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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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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.
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