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I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now ...

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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept.... My aim in life has always been to hold my own wi...

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As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

We don’t forget, but something vacant settles in us.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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People are lucky and unlucky ... according to the ratio between what they get and what they have bee...

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Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without ...

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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...

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Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actu...

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Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow ...

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I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes ...

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In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome stubbornness is stupid.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every...

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The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be l...

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Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it...

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There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreduc...

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Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing nev...

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He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of ...

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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and ...

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Sylvia PlathThe Journals of Sylvia Plath

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to...

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Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can som...

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He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.

Give me, if you will, prayers;Or let me know dryness,An abudance of devotion,Or if not, then barrenn...

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I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. Tha...

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I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend.

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time ...

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When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to meet it w...

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What to AcceptThe fact of mountains. The actualityOf any stone — by kicking, if necessary. The need ...

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A tree gives glory to God by being a tree. For in being what God means it to be it is obeying [God]....

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Thomas MertonNew Seeds of Contemplation

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When...

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I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed see...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...

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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of -...

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Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, ...

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To oppose something is to maintain it.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there-...

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The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these...

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So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forget...

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He loved her in spite of her unlovableness. Armande had many trying, thought not necessarily rare, t...

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Often the prudent far from making their destinies succumb to them.

Better is the enemy of the good.

We do not write as we want but as we can.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

I exist as I am that is enough If no other in the world be aware I sit content And if each and a...

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I will leave all and come and make the hymns of you, None has understood you, but I understand you, ...

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I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.All seems beautiful to me...

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Part of the new morality of the '60s and '70s is a new attitude toward homosexuality. The homosexual...

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We cannot conquer fate and necessity yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater tha...

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There is no easy path leading out of life and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get fr...

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I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'caus...

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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...

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It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is.

The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical n...

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William Barrett (philosopher)Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

It is right it should be so Man was made for joy and woe And when this we rightly know Through th...

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No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these ...

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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he...

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Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied i...

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at...

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Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to ackno...

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The True Man of ancient times knew nothing of loving life, knew nothing of hating death. He emerged ...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

He who has mastered the true nature of life does not labor over what life cannot do. He who has mast...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was...

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History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

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When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away it is best to let him r...

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No man was to be eulogized for what he did; or censured for what he did or did not do. All of us are...

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Against necessity against its strength no one can fight and win.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up the reed avoided be...

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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use ...

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