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People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Happy is he who bears a god within.
Happy is he who bears a god within.
We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made read more
We shall assume that what each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but by pictures made by himself or given to him. If his atlas tells him the world is flat he will not sail near what he believes to be the edge of our planet for fear of falling off. If his maps include a fountain of eternal youth, a Ponce de Leon will go off in quest of it. If someone digs up yellow dirt that looks like gold, he will for a time act exactly as if he has found gold. The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do. It does not determine what they will achieve. It determines their effort, their feelings, their hopes, not their accomplishments and results.
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The read more
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The Heart's Domain.
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of read more
Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.
Brain-washing starts in the cradle.
Brain-washing starts in the cradle.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
