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People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one read more
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who read more
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, read more
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for read more
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than read more
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on read more
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them
