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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
~Paul Valery
A Guy
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
~Paul Valery
A Guy
“I quote others only the better to express myself”
Michel de Montaigne
US
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
~P. G. Wodehouse
A Guy
To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury,and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich;
to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart;
to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never;
in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--
this is my symphony.
WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING.
{K&J}
A being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
Albert Einstein
{K & J}