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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The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.
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Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.
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Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
