“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.”
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- “The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”
- What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
- Like human beings, a wine’s taste is going to depend a great deal on
- Because they are human beings, addicts long for wholeness, for fulfillment, and for the final good
- A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
- A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies
- Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol
- Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.