Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure.
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Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a 'necessary evil,' it begins to look more and more necessary and less and less evil.
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Parents and teachers too are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the 'right answer' more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within ones self cannot be learned from another.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
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