God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. -C. S. Lewis

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You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa.

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Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it. ― Criss Jami

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Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

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What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

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When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ― Dale Carnegie

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A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.

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God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing. ― C.S. Lewis

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A man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself. ― Mike Tyson

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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ― Khalil Gibran

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