CLEAR ALL
We are what we believe we are!
'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird 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.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
Do not dare not to dare.