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 I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbour; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.  This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it. Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. - Bible It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble; how hopeless the outlook; how muddled the tangle; how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all. If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world. There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage. We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light. Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have a special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves. The history of medicine is a story of amazing foolishness and amazing intelligence. My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off. You can't lose weight without exercise. But I've got a philosophy about exercise. I don't think you should punish your legs for something your mouth did. Drag your lips around the block once or twice. It is very nice to think The world is full of meat and drink With little children saying grace In every Christian kind of place. The bluebird carries the sky on his back. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. The toughest thing about being a housewife is you have no place to stay home from. Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm. The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others. What isn't tried won't work. Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. 
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