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There are times when the future seems thick as a fog; you sit and wait, hoping the mists will lift and reveal the right path.
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102
Joy deserted my heart, and for a long, long time I lived in doubt, anxiety and fear.
103
Man is only what he becomes--profound truth; but he becomes only what he is, truth still more profound.
104
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.
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Nothing is more hidden from us than the illusion which lives with us day by day, and our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
106
Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·April 22, 1851
107
If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.
108
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.
109
angry people are not always wise
110
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that
111
It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.
112
They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.
113
In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.
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Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.
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The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
116
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
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Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the burden of a foolish person.
118
Most men, when they repent, oblige their friends to share the bitterness of that repentance.
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Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.
120
There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.
121
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
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This is Will Durant, not Aristotle, and Durant is not translating -- he is summarising the Nicomachean Ethics in his own words and marking the difference by dropping the quotation marks he uses on either side of it. The nearest thing in Aristotle is that virtues are formed in a man by his doing the actions, which Durant does put in quotation marks in the same sentence. The memorable half is the half Durant wrote. It usually circulates with a therefore inserted and the excellence turned into a moral instruction, neither of which is in the book.
122
It doesn't matter to me any longer how long I live, what matters to me most is how I live.
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123
If you made wrong choice and realized the mistake much later, it's okay. Even if it changed course of your life drastically, it's still okay. You did what you felt was best. You have already suffered a lot due to that. Worrying is a waste of time. Forgive yourself.
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124
To compare yourself against others only exhausted and stresses you. You are growing at your pace. Your goals are different from others. Your circumstances are unique. Your timeline is only yours. Focus on improving yourself each day, no matter what's happening around you.
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125
You are important. Your existence has a reason. You deserve to be respected. You aren't meant to be an afterthought. Don't chase those who make you shrink. Replace them with those who realise that your presence is a reward and your energy is a blessing.
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