My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves read more
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face towards the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to read more
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows read more
To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.
