“True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.”
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“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”
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“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
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“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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