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It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -Addison Walker.
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture read more
Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself read more
Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to read more
Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit. -William James.
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, read more
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.
...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.
...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard read more
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. -Coco Chanel.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our read more
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. -Ken Burns.
