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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

—Samuel Butler

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I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

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The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

—Ogden Nash

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

—George Bernard Shaw

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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

—Barbara Hall

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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

—Stuart Stevens

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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

—Moliere

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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

—Democritus

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Pride sullies the noblest character.

—Claudianus

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To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

—Mahatma Gandhi

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The story is told of a holy man who lived in a large house on top of a remote mountain. Over time, news of the holy man's greatness spread throughout the land, and many seekers made their way over the mountains in hopes of having even a brief moment with this saintly being. Each aspirant was greeted at the door by a servant, who ushered him or her into the house and guided the visitor through several rooms. After a few minutes the servant and aspirant arrived at another door, which led out of the back of the house. The servant opened the door and indicated to the visitor that it was time to leave. "But I was hoping to have even a few minutes with the holy man!" the aspirant would utter in frustration. "You just did," answered the holy man as he closed the door.

—Alan Cohen

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God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water; the next, your son bouncing on your knees, or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.

—Nikos Kazantzakis

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I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life.

—Pearl S. Buck

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Life happens to be both a severe and an endlessly kind teacher. It's the only authority that you need to trust. And this teacher, this authority, is everywhere. You don't have to go to some special place to find this incomparable teacher; you don't have to have some especially quiet or ideal situation: in fact, the messier it is, the better. The average office is a great place. The average home is perfect. . . . That is where the authority, the teacher is.

—Charlotte Joko Beck

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