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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

Agatha Christie

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don’t give a damn.
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Care Failure Goodness Happiness People
The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.
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Best Planning Time Yourself
If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
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Animal Bite Complain Head Place Yourself
One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.
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Acceptance Companion Company Friendship Goodness Grave Learning Live Yourself
Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can’t do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they’ve seen it often before.
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Children Experience Growth Intuition Reading Word
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
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Face Human Life
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
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Age Bloom Enjoyment Greatness Life Open Yourself
I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.
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Direction Myself Necessary Possible Save Thinking Trouble
The tragedy of life is that people do not change.
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Change Life People Tragedy
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.
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Acceptance Bitter Design Live Truth
Very few of us are what we seem.
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Appearance One Liner Reality
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.
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Account Fact Let Go Theory
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
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Dog Quiet Wisdom World Wound
It’s not a man’s working hours that are important–it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
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Important Inspirational Man Mistake Wasted Time Work
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
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Advice Goodness Ignorance Reason
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
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Afraid Question Yourself

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

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One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave – our own self. Get on good terms with that companion – learn to live with yourself.

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