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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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"Use time to discover who you are."

"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."

"In afternoon if you close eyes it's doesn't mean there is dark outside and if you avoid or do not want see your wrong deeds and wrong character it's doesn't mean all Good in you."

"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."

"Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still."

"Galinda didn't see the verdant world through the glass of the carriage; she saw her own reflection instead. She had the nearsightedness of youth. She reasoned that because she was beautiful she was significant, though what she signified, and to whom, was not clear yet...She was, after all, on her way to Shiz because she was smart. But there was more than one way to be smart."

"The thing is, at the end of the day you still have to face yourself."

"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."

"Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add."

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."
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"Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations..."

"We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it."

"The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."

"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."

"The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual."

"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
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