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Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!
Though there are very many nations all over the earth,…there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities,…one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God….To the City of Man belong the enemies of God,…so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, 'To know one's self.' And what was easy, 'To advise another.'
Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art…. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.
It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
