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It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Cannery Row
We are so scared of losing everything that doesn't mean anything.
Funny, how the things you have the hardest time parting with are the things you need the least.
he worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.
Chronicles
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
He who has resolved to conquer or die is seldom conquered; such noble despair perishes with difficulty
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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