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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

 

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All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

 

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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

 

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But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

 

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the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

 

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Power takes as ingratitude

 

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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

 

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The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

 

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...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

 

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Where there is love, there is pain.

 

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We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

 

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What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.



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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

 

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

 

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Tact is the

 

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If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

 

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One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk

 

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The trouble with cats

 

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

 

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.



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