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"If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics."
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Personal Development
"If you want to know the value of a week ask the editor of a weekly magazine if he fails to meet up with the target of his weekly publication."
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Personal Development
"Like any value, empathy must be acted upon."
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Personal Development
"Money is not respect. Neither is power. And if people respect you for your money or your power, it isn't you they respect - but the money or the power.When you win people over who hate you for what you are or what you believe, and they still come to you to make friends - or to ask you for counsel or assistance - that is respect - and that respect is power."
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Personal Development
"There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to 'devalue' anything."
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Personal Development
"A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect."
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Personal Development
"In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he was. She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil."
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Personal Development
"There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders."
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Personal Development
"The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was-after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain."
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Personal Development
"It is sad that people seek money more than wisdom."
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"Intuition is seeing with the soul."
Intuition
"What we do as a society is seek simple answers."
Society
"...I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace."
Grace
"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote."
Fulfillment
"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."
Salvation
"Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror."
Horror
"Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest."
Metaphor
"When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster."
Compassion
"The less I have, the less I can lose."
Life
"Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path."
Fate
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