"Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass."

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Source : Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Max Ehrmann

#Being Yourself Quotes #Exercise Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming”
“Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.”

Source : "State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass, www.taipeitimes.com. February 21, 2006.
“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.”
“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”
“A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.”

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.
“I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.”
“Men date. Women have relationships.”
“The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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