We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThose who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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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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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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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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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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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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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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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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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