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 Happy is he that chastens himself.  It is possible to live in San Francisco for $35,000 a year. Obviously, that doesn't include food or lodging. Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow.... When I struggle and try to organize the Atlantic to my specifications, I sink. If I flail and thrash and growl and grumble, I go under. But if I let go and float, I am borne aloft. Better bend than break. Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it. We are betrayed by what is false within. It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. Much that I sought, I could not find; much that I found, I could not bind; much that I bound, I could not free; much that I freed, returned to me. A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Beware the fury of a patient man. Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. I do not love the sea. The look of it is disquieting. There is something in the very sound of it that stirs the premonition felt while we listen to noble music; we become inexplicably troubled. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad. Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves. Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates it's own objects: is this not also true of fear? 
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