Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) was a British fellow and tutor at Oxford University, chair of Medieval and Renaissance literature at Cambridge University, and prolific author best known for his work on Christian apologetics and exploration of moral philosophy through fairy tales, science fiction, and the children’s series The Chronicles of Narnia.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
We are what we believe we are!
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
