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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.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different?
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
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.
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.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
We are what we believe we are!
