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"It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words."
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"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."
"It is not good to make everyday decision based upon what we see and what other people are saying or thinking."
"Even if everybody is looking at the same light bulb, the unique composition of an individual will dictate how they interpret and see things. Some people will only see things with their left eye (mind/moon), while others will use only their right (heart/sun). Some people are completely void of light and repel it immediately. For instance, a beetle will chase after an opening of light, while a cockroach will scatter at a crack of it. How are we different than the insects? Nobody is purely good or purely evil. Most of us are in-between. There are moths that explore the day and butterflies that play at night. Polarity is an integral part of nature - human or not human."
"We don't need eyes to judge people's beauty, but unfortunately we judge them as we see."
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."
"Changing your perception will alter your interpretations and therefore, your reality. If you feel like you're hitting a wall because you simply don't understand something, or another person has a different approach, keep your mind open and willing to reinterpret it with fresh eyes, more information, a change in position, or a new perspective."
"No is a false perception. Yes is a positive conception.Go with reality and reason."
"You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken."
"What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?"
"Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."
"To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance."
"Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do."
"We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."
"Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."
"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."
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