“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”
– Mr Rogers
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You’re three – Unknown
“I know five fat people and you’re three of them.”
– Unknown
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Mistaken – Pascal
“When we wish to correct with advantage, and to show another that he errs, we must notice from what side he views the matter, for on that side it is usually true, and admit that truth to him, but reveal to him the side on which it is false. He is satisfied with that, for he sees that he was not mistaken, and that he only failed to see all sides. Now, no one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.”
– Pascal
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Perfection – Stanley J. Randall
“The closest to perfection anyone ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.”
– Stanley J. Randall
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Wisdom – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Lifeless – English proverb
“He is lifeless that is faultless.”
– English proverb
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The best things – Art Buchwald
“The best things in life aren’t things.”
– Art Buchwald
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Art of being wise – William James
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
– William James
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The ideal lover – Alain de Botton
“The ideal lover: someone who corrects the biases of one’s own personality.”
– Alain de Botton
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
– Albert Einstein
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Goodness – Pablo Casals
“Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage… to listen to his own goodness.”
– Pablo Casals
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Egg – Turkish proverb
“Today’s egg is better than tomorrow’s hen.”
– Turkish proverb
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Miserable or strong – Carlos Castenada
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Carlos Castenada
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Adversity – Arthur Golden
“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
– Arthur Golden