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It's surprising how many persons

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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An idealist believes the short

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
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There's no point in burying

There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
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The three hardest tasks in

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, I was wrong.
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Any philosophy that can be

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.
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We have not passed that

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
👁️ 72

Regret for the things we

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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When I hear somebody sigh,

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what'
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