When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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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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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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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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If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.
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A loser says that’s the way it’s always been done. A winner says there ought to be a better way.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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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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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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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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The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject.
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Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
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People decline invitations when they are “indisposed” physically, and I wish they would do likewise when they feel indisposed emotionally. A person has no more right to attend a party with a head full of venom than with a throat full of virus.
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