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There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.
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The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck.
To be alive at all is to have scars.
The human is the only guilty animal.
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
