Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
SYDNEY J. HARRISHappiness is a direction, not a place.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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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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Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance.
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A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.
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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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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder – and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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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.
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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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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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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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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And nobody is more aware of this difference (although unconsciously) than a child. Only an authentic person can evoke a good response in the core of the other person; only person is resonant to person.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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