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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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Personal Development
"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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Personal Development
"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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Personal Development
"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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Personal Development
"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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Personal Development
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
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Personal Development
"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous."
Wisdom
"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
Man
"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
Philosophy
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
Philosophy
"I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?"
Being
"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education."
Education
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
Man
"I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river."
Joy
"Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature."
Music
"All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten."
Philosophy
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