Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.
SYDNEY J. HARRISThe whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
More Sydney J. Harris Quotes
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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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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There’s no point in burying a hatchet if you’re going to put up a marker on the site.
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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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The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure.
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Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.
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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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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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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.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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