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It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.

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It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.

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One Of The Blessings Of Age Is To Learn Not To Part On A Note Of Sharpness, To Treasure The Moments Spent With Those We Love, And To Make Them Whenever Possible Good To Remember, For Time Is Short.

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Long Ago, I Made Up My Mind That, When Things Were Said Involving Only Me, I Would Pay No Attention To Them, Except When Valid Criticism Was Carried By Which I Could Profit.

My Life Can Be So Arranged That I Can Live On Whatever I Have. If I Cannot Live As I Have Lived In The Past, I Shall Live Differently, And Living Differently Does Not Mean Living With Less Attention To The Things That Make Life Gracious And Pleasant Or With Less Enjoyment Of Things Of The Mind.

It's Your Life - But Only If You Make It So. The Standards By Which You Live Must Be Your Own Standards, Your Own Values, Your Own Convictions In Regard To What Is Right And Wrong, What Is True And False, What Is Important And What Is Trivial. When You Adopt The Standards And The Values Of Someone Else . . . You Surrender Your Own Integrity. You Become, To The Extent Of Your Surrender, Less Of A Human Being.

If Someone Betrays You Once, It’s Their Fault; If They Betray You Twice, It’s Your Fault.

The Battle For The Individual Rights Of Women Is One Of Long Standing And None Of Us Should Countenance Anything Which Undermines It.

At All Times, Day By Day, We Have To Continue Fighting For Freedom Of Religion, Freedom Of Speech, And Freedom From Want... For These Are Things That Must Be Gained In Peace As Well As In War.

If You Approach Each New Person You Meet In A Spirit Of Adventure, You Will Find Yourself Endlessly Fascinated By The New Channels Of Thought And Experience And Personality That You Encounter.

Life Is What You Make It. Always Has Been, Always Will Be.

No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent.

Success Is Not Something That Can Be Measured Or Worn On A Watch Or Hung On A Wall. It Is Not The Esteem Of Colleagues, Or The Admiration Of The Community, Or The Appreciation Of Patients. Success Is The Certain Knowledge That You Have Become Yourself, The Person You Will Meant To Be From All Time. That Should Be Reward Enough.

Have Convictions. Be Friendly. Stick To Your Beliefs As They Stick To Theirs. Work As Hard As They Do.

Remember Always That You Have Not Only The Right To Be An Individual; You Have An Obligation To Be One.

Marriage And The Up-bringing Of Children In The Home Require As Well-trained A Mind And As Well-disciplined A Character As Any Other Occupation That Might Be Considered A Career.

Enjoy Every Minute You Have With Those You Love, My Dear, For No One Can Take Joy That Is Past Away From You. It Will Be There In Your Heart To Live On When The Dark Days Come.

One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education.

Friendship With Ones Self Is All Important, Because Without It One Cannot Be Friends With Anyone Else In The World.

The Important Thing Is Neither Your Nationality Nor The Religion You Professed, But How Your Faith Translated Itself In Your Life.

Important Things

Of Course, I Do Not Believe In Having Everyone Who Is A Liberal Called A Communist, Or Everyone Who Is Conservative Called A Fascist.

Sailors Have The Cleanest Bodies And The Filthiest Minds.

It Is Curious How Much More Interest Can Be Evoked By A Mixture Of Gossip, Romance And Mystery Than By Facts.

Life Has Got To Be Lived - That's All There Is To It. At Seventy, I Would Say The Advantage Is That You Take Life More Calmly. You Know That 'this, Too, Shall Pass!'

This Too Shall Pass

Nothing Alive Can Stand Still, It Goes Forward Or Back. Life Is Interesting Only As Long As It Is A Process Of Growth; Or, To Put It Another Way, We Can Only Grow As Long As We Are Interested.

Mozart, Who Was Buried In A Pauper’s Grave, Was One Of The Greatest Successes We Know Of, A Man Who In His Early Thirties Had Poured Out His Inexhaustible Gift Of Music, Leaving The World Richer Because He Had Passed That Way. To Leave The World Richer—that Is The Ultimate Success.

This Freedom Of Which Men Speak, For Which They Fight, Seems To Some People A Perilous Thing. It Has To Be Earned At A Bitter Cost And Then It Has To Be Lived With. For Freedom Makes A Huge Requirement Of Every Human Being. With Freedom Comes Responsibility.

Friends, You And Me... You Brought Another Friend... And Then There Were Three... We Started Our Group... Our Circle Of Friends... And Like That Circle... There Is No Beginning Or End.

It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.

Of Course Mahatma Gandhi You Might Say Did Not Have So Much Physical Vigor But He Certainly Seemed To Have Extraordinary Resistance, Which Perhaps Is Rather Different From Physical Vigor.

Obedience May Have Its Uses, But It Is No Substitute For Willing, Uncoerced Co-operation.

In Our Country We Must Trust The People To Hear And See Both The Good And The Bad And To Choose The Good.

Be Flexible, But Stick To Your Principles.

More People Are Ruined By Victory, I Imagine, Than Be Defeat.

One Of The First Things We Must Get Rid Of Is The Idea That Democracy Is Tantamount To Capitalism.

I Once Had A Rose Named After Me And I Was Very Flattered. But I Was Not Pleased To Read The Description In The Catalogue: No Good In A Bed, But Fine Up Against A Wall.

The Freedom Of Man, I Contend, Is The Freedom To Eat.

Your Ambition Should Be To Get As Much Life Out Of Living As You Possibly Can, As Much Enjoyment, As Much Interest, As Much Experience, As Much Understanding. Not Simply Be What Is Generally Called A 'success.'

You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.

The Motivating Force Of The Theory Of A Democratic Way Of Life Is Still A Belief That As Individuals We Live Cooperatively, And, To The Best Of Our Ability, Serve The Community In Which We Live.

If You Lose Money You Lose Much, If You Lose Friends You Lose More, If You Lose Faith You Lose All.

A Little Simplification Would Be The First Step Toward Rational Living, I Think.

Inspirational Life

Furnish An Example, Stop Preaching, Stop Shielding, Don't Prevent Self-reliance And Initiative, Allow Your Children To Develop Along Thier Own Lines.

Develop A Skin As Thick As A Rhinoceros Hide!

Change Means The Unknown.

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