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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always read more
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to read more
When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that read more
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some read more
Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential.