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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan read more
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. -Jonathan Swift.
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel read more
It is an inexorable Law of Nature that bad must follow good, that decline must follow a rise. To feel that we can rest on our achievements is a dangerous fallacy. Inner strength can overcome anything that occurs outside. Patanjali (c. 1st to 3rd century BC) -I Ching (B.C.1150?).
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.