Quotes 7201 till 7220 of 10234.
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The guru, if he is gifted, reads the story as any bilingual person might. He does not translate-he understands.
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
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The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context, and the context has changed.
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
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The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
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The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
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The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
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The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.
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The heart, not the head, must be the guide.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
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The high wage begins down in the shop. If it is not created there it cannot get into pay envelopes. There will never be a system invented which will do away with the necessity for work.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
The Sabbath (1951) p. 6
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