Jean Harris famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.
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I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
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The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
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It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.
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Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.
-- Jean Harris
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Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.
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Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.
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The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
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Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
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(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
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Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.
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Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.
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Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
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