Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
From Eric Hoffer
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
Children are the keys of paradise.
The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
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