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• "You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy."

• "With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves."

• "Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

• "Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident."

• "When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."

• "We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

• "We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends."

• "We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand."

• "To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

• "There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."

• "The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness."

• "The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

• "The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

• "The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."

• "The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

• "Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."

• "Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."

• "One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action."

• "It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."

• "It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."

• "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

• "Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

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