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- A patient man is one who can put up with himself.
- Author Unknown
- There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism.
- Edward Steichen
- We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. In the cradle it in moving its little arms and legs in a certain rhythm. And when our music falls on the ears of an infant it is of the lowest character compared with the music it is accustomed to.
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
- "Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
- Pearl S. Buck
- To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
- Richard Whately
- Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercise; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Malice sucks up the greater part of her own venom, and poisons herself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- If you had it all to do over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
- Author Unknown
- There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
- Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
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