Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.
SYDNEY J. HARRISMaking out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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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.
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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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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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 time to relax is when you don’t have time for it.
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Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves – so how can we know anyone else?
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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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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.
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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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You may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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