In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for “finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‘understand’ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it’s been pretty fun.
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
There are also just as many, if not more, women who are anxious to hold down the status quo.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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