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“Come to me in my dreams, and then
By day I shall be well again!
For so the night will more than pay
The hopeless longings of the day.”
― Matthew Arnold, Longing

“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”
― Matthew Arnold

“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.”
― Matthew Arnold, Essays In Criticism By Matthew Arnold

“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
― Matthew Arnold

“The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.”
― Matthew Arnold, The Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold

“Weary of myself, and sick of asking
What I am, and what I ought to be,
At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me
Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.”
― Matthew Arnold

“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
”
― Matthew Arnold

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
”
― Matthew Arnold

“Choose equality.”
― Matthew Arnold

“To see the object as in itself it really is”
― Matthew Arnold, The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

“We mortal millions live alone.”
― Matthew Arnold

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.”
― Blaise Pascal

“All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.”
― Blaise Pascal

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.”
― Blaise Pascal

“You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.”
― David Viscott

“Tell The Truth.
Most of your problems come from not telling the truth.
The lies you tell, even to spare other people's feelings, always come back to haunt you.
If you simply tell people what you mean you would be better off, a lot happier, not trapped in some awkward social situation. Others will know where they standand will be more honest with you.
They won't expect you to be what you're not. They won'tneed to test you to discover your intentions. You won't have to make excuses for not doing things you didn't want to do or explain why you prefer to do what like to do. They'll know.
Telling the truth and being your own person are closely linked. A strong person says what he or she means. A weak person lies to please others. A strong person lets the truth be other people's problem. A weak person holds the truth inside and complains about being treated unfairly.
What is telling the truth hurts other people's feelings? You're not supposed to tell people that they look fat, are stupid or ugly. That's just being rude.
Tell the truth avout what you feel, want, and like and mean what you say. If other's get hurt by your truth, they'll have to deal with it. Others may not like what you say, but they'll respect you for being honest and they'll survive better than if you lie to them.
If you lie to please people, they won't really believe you. They'll be suspicious and suffer with every inconsistency they find in your story. You'll be called on to update alibis and others will undermine you and try to trap you. People hate being lie to, because lying takes away their free choice and their ability to defend themselves.
Tell the truth. It only hurts once.
Lies hurt everyone all the time.”
― David Viscott

“The Truth.
Live your life so that the truth is your friend.
The truth is the beginning of freedom.
The truth is freedom.
The truth is its own explanation.
One truth admits all others.
The truth is within you.
Don't fight it. Admitting the truth only hurts when it should.
It only takes one small truth to pierce your false illusions, and yet one truth can set your whole life straight.
The truth is the cure for confusion.
Only being loyal to truth will comfort you.
Being able to hear the truth is being able to understand the mysteries of your life and connect them.
People will only tell you the truth that you are able to hear. And so you can only have others' love if you can hear all of their truth.
If love is anything, love is the truth.
Where the truth is most easily expressed, stress is lowest.
Courage comes when you seek the truth.
Healing begins when you accept it.
Tell the truth so you're not in pain and can love the world again.”
― David Viscott

“Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.”
― Robert Brault

“Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.”
― Robert Brault

“I Have Found that If You Love Life Life will Love You Back”
― Robert Brault, Round Up The Usual Subjects: Thoughts On Just About Everything

“Sometimes we can't find the thing that will make us happy, because we can't let go of the thing that was supposed to.”
― Robert Brault

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.”
― Robert Brault

“A family is a group of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid.”
― Robert Brault

“To truly know someone is to know the silence that stands for the thing they never speak of.”
― Robert Brault

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan