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Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way read more
Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way -- how many pleasing things are done for you.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some read more
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly read more
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
The world basically and fundamentally is constituted on the basis of harmony. Everything works in co-operation with something else.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is read more
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.