“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”
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Wise Quotes — page 155 of 916
“You have to let go of the things that are darling to you. You have to take the focus off yourself and put it on the shape of the scene and the intention of what everyone else needs.”
“Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton gives us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroidising, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent.”
“Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?”
“I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.”
“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.”
“A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.”
“Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.”
“Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.”
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
“Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines.”
“One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.”
“A correct diagnosis is three-fourths the remedy.”
“He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures.”
“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
“The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.”
“The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.”
“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.”
“I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.”