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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.

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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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Change Deep Motivation Need Perspective Success
It seems sometimes as if one were powerless to do any more from within to overcome troubles, and that help must come from without.
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Help Oneself Power Time Trouble
I am sure it is one’s duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one’s own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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Emotion Man Opinion Responsibility Suffering Taste Teacher Teaching Try Worth
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
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Authority Myself People Slave
The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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Goodness Life Moment Reality Stifle Yourself
The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
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Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
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Adjust Need Ourselves Pain Process Time
All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Best Deep Escape Oneself Reality Story World
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Beautiful Growth Mystery Pilgrimage Slow World
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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Deal Generosity People Relationship
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Help Oneself People Refusal Right
One’s mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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Clear Ground Mindset Oneself Way
Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Appearance Expensive World
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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Account Book Chronicle Conversation Movement Need Walk
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
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Door Journey Joy Mystery Soul Spiritual Thinking
I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Interest Myself People Person Quite

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