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To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

My goals for the next part of my life: Whatever I’m handed, I’m gonna make the most of it. If it’s good for me, I’m gonna take it.
BHAD BHABIE

Acceptance Goal Hands Life Myself
Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
VIRGINIA WOOLF

Drift Frail Friendship
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Genuine Sleep Tact
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

Always Boundary Burst Formula Life One Liner
Please be careful. Hearts are fragile.
IVA TONIEVA

Care Fragile Heart One Liner
The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
WILL ROGERS

Birthday Experience Old Wait Worth
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ

Dreams Enough Life Myself Physical Reason
When I’ve had a meltdown, people will say to me, “Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor.”
LILY TOMLIN

Failure Humor Myself People Talk Yourself
This simply strengthens the ego. In fact, such conclusions arise from the ego itself. Pay no attention to them. Don’t go to war with yourself; simply inquire into who you are.
ADYASHANTI

Attention Conclusion Ego Enquire Fact Pay Simply Strengthens
There’s always time to grow older. You can never grow younger.
JOJO SIWA

Growth Old Time Young Yourself
People give out compliments because it’s polite.
BOOTS RILEY

Compliment Giving People
When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn’t get a job and I couldn’t eat meat.
BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT

Baby Jobs Meat
There’s a lot of people who don’t like Tom Brady and I’m OK with that.
TOM BRADY

Myself Okay People
All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.
JULIAN OF NORWICH

Himself Love Peace
There seemed to be a mystifying universal conspiracy among textbook authors to make certain the material they dealt with never strayed too near the realm of the mildly interesting and was always at least a long-distance phone call from the frankly interesting.
BILL BRYSON

Distance Long Phones
I’m not a rock star, I’m not Seane Corne or Shiva Rea or Rodney Yee or Baron (Baptiste) or John Friend, and thank God, because there’s just too much risk of getting hit by flying tomatoes if you stick out that much.
BERYL BENDER BIRCH

Flying Rocks Stars