What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
- Topic: Honesty, Self
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
The true worth is not to be found in man himself, but in the colors and texture that come alive in others.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.
