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- He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
- J. E. Buchrose
- Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
- Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
- Sydney J. Harris
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
- Edward Chapin
- It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
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