Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe 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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By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.
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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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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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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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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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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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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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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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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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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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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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There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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