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One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It read more
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of read more
Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to read more
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
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.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to read more
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
