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Quotations from the Wayside
All joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul fit nourishment.
SARAH FLOWER ADAMS
Be what you wish others to become.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
A man wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
ANONYMOUS
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
ANONYMOUS
When a man knows that he is wrong, he starts being right.
ANONYMOUS
We all make mistakes but everyone makes different mistakes.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
. . . all you behold, tho’ it appears without, it is within.
WILLIAM BLAKE
We are better able to teach others after we have learned the lessons ourselves.
CYRIL E. BRUBAKER
If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it?
CHINESE PROVERB
There is one thing for which we must assume responsibility: the government
of our own minds.
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS
People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes.
JOAN DIDION
People need not think so much about what they ought to do, but they should
remember what they are.
MEISTER ECKHART
Keep your eye on the functioning of your inner life and start from there.
MEISTER ECKHART
Trust thyself; every heart vibrates to that iron string.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to
what lies within you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Never despise your handicaps.
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
Men’s happiness depends upon their expectations.
CHARLES FRANKEL
I must depend on myself as the only constant friend.
MARGARET FULLER
I do not compete with the world. I compete with my ignorance.
SRI CHINMOY GHOSE
The longest journey is the journey inwards.
DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD
Self-knowledge may expand the understanding of other people’s worlds.
DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD
In the last resort, it is by his own vision that every man must live.
W. E. HOCKING
You find in solitude only what you take to it.
JIMINEZ
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
JANIS JOPLIN
What we wish to become tomorrow begins with what we choose to be today.
RICHARD A. KELLAWAY
I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
HELEN KELLER
It is wisdom to know others; it is enlightenment to know one’s self.
LAO TZU
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it.
MARTIN LUTHER
The truth about ourselves is usually at variance with what we wish it to
be.
JACK MENDELSOHN
I am the authority that governs the images I hold of myself and others.
J. SID PAULSON
In facing its terrors the self earns its victory.
MORSE PECKHAM
We often give to others advice we need ourselves.
ROY D. PHILIPS
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but
in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
Give me neither poverty nor riches: feed me with food convenient for me.
PROVERBS 30:8
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
AYN RAND
None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
ROMANS 14:7
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
A selfish victory is always destined to be an ultimate defeat.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Labor to cast self aside, and to live in the universal life.
JOSIAH ROYCE
Go not abroad for happiness—it is a flower blooming at your door.
MINOT SAVAGE
Each person I meet is part of my growth.
CATHARINE SCHRAMM
The worst poverty is the ignorance of one’s riches.
RICHARD SEAVER
It is in the minds and hearts of men that decisive battles must be fought.
EDMUND W. SINNOTT
A man can lose his god, but he cannot lose himself.
HOMER V. SMITH
Everyone forges his inner self year after year.
ALEXANDER I. SOLZHENITSYN
No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.
RABBI SOTER
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
We are still being born and have as yet but a dim vision.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and
blood and bones.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Always we have the wealth which we are, the beauty which lives.
ERNST TOLLER
In order to give oneself, one must first possess oneself.
PAUL TOURNIER
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE
Search thine own heart. What paineth thee in others in thyself may be.
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
In your own self lies destiny.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
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