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“You can't be deep without a surface”
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

“I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.”
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

“It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed.”
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

“To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.”
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All Thinking is Wishful.”
― Jonathan Lethem, You Don't Love Me Yet

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem lightly.”
― Thomas Paine

“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”
― Marilyn Ferguson

“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
― Albert Einstein

“The way we see the problem is the problem.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
― Henry Stanley Haskins

“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
― Dag Hammarskjold

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

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat.”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ would take the slums out of people, and then they would take themselves out of the slums.
The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.”
― Ezra Taft Benson

“Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things. I am tempted to think there are no little things.”
― Bruce Barton

“I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity-
in important things, diversity-
in all things, generosity.”
― George Bush

“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays