This above all: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ Shakespeare
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True →
Disguise →
We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
~ Rochefoucauld
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Purpose →
To concentrate your mind on something is not the true purpose of zen. The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
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Profound →
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may be another profound truth.
~ Niels Bohr
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Stubbornness →
To someone who asked Newton how he had managed to construct his theory, he could reply: ‘By thinking about it all the time.’ There is no greatness without a little stubbornness.
~ Albert Camus
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Life →
Whoever wants life must go softly towards life, softly as one would go towards a deer and fawn that are nestling under a tree. One gesture of violence, one violent assertion of self-will and life is gone. […] But with quietness, with an abandon of self-assertion and a fullness of the deep true self one can approach another human being, and know the delicate best of life, the touch.
~ D.H. Lawrence
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Memory →
Sometimes you don’t know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
~ Gunnar Freyr
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Worth →
The real measure of our wealth is how much we’d be worth if we lost all our money.
~ John Henry Jowett
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Music →
We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn—the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres.
~ William Mackergo Taylor
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Chance →
In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance—when you least expect it—sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
~ Nicholas Sparks
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