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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development
"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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Personal Development
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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Personal Development
"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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Personal Development
"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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Personal Development
"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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Personal Development
"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story 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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"In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you."
Man
"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."
Poetry
"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"
Life
"I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation."
Poetry
"In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived."
Age
"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth."
Life
"Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work."
Work
"There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it."
Being
"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"
Life
"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."
Art
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