The friend is the person whom one is in need of and by whom one is needed.
A. C. BENSONIt is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
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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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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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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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I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.
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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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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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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
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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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The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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A well begun is half ended.
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The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn’t your real life.
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
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