To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
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The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.
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Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.
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It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
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Successful action tends to become an end in itself.
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