All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.
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If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
There is only one time that is important—now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.
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The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
A scepter snatched with an unruly hand must be as boisterously maintained as gained; and he that stands upon a slippery place makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
Oh! poverty is a weary thing, 'tis full of grief and pain; it keepeth down the soul of man, as with an iron chain.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and . . . each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
