"No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife."
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"We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them."
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"Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered."
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"We forget that we create the situations, then we give our power away by blaming the other person for our frustration. No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for “we” are the only thinkers in our mind. We create our experiences, our reality, and everyone in it. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our mind, we will find it in our lives."
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"You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that."
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"You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others."
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"I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us."
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"If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance."
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"The connoisseur of painting gives only bad advice to the painter. For that reason I have given up trying to judge myself."
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"If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography."
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"A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life."
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"But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in."
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"Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence."
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"It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds."
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"Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences."
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"It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace."
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"The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift."
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"The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."
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"You can give the Devil too much or too little attention."
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"When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little."
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