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. HARRISThose who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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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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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, ‘Why not?’ and the other, ‘Why bother?’
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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A ‘penchant for telling the truth’ can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor’s wife.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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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 best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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