Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
SYDNEY J. HARRISIt’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its own, to make independent decisions and to question the omnipotence or the wisdom of the parent.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light – and the next tunnel.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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