When a person expends the least amount of motion on one action, that is grace.
ANTON CHEKHOVYou will not become a saint through other people’s sins.
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Man will become better when you show him what he is like.
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Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
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The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible.
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To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.
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When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won’t intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.
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Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
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There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you’re angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you’re asked.
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Write only of what is important and eternal.
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Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.
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