Tag: quotations

• If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

  2014-03-27

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• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

  2014-03-27

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• The main practice of all major religions is love and to defend it against obstacles we need tolerance and forgiveness. Consequently, all major religions talk about compassion, tolerance, contentment, and self-discipline. The teachers of our various traditions have been realistic in their advice. Because self-centredness often leads to greed, they all advise cultivating contentment and simplicity in our lives.

  2014-03-27

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• Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

  2014-03-26

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• Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

  2014-03-26

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• Good morning!” he said at last. “We don’t want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water.” By this he meant that the conversation was at an end. “What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!” said Gandalf. “Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won’t be good till I move off.

  2014-03-25

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• We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

  2014-03-25

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• It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.

  2014-03-24

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• There am I. I cannot leave. I have nothing to complain about. I do not suffer excessively, for I do not suffer consistently, it does not pile up, at least I do not feel it for the time being, and the degree of my suffering is far less than the suffering that is perhaps my due.

  2014-03-23

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• Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

  2014-03-23

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.

  2014-03-19

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• Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

  2014-03-19

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• Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

  2014-03-18

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• Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

  2014-03-17

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