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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be read more
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson.
Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.
Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.
You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is read more
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others, as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far read more
God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.
How could I have been anyone other than me?
How could I have been anyone other than me?
