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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, read more
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months read more
When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate read more
Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that process gain strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it,.
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is read more
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.