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“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“How do you curb envy? First, stop comparing yourself to others. Second, find your “circle of competence” and fill it on your own. Create a niche where you are the best. It doesn’t matter how small your area of mastery is. The main thing is that you are king of the castle.”
― The Art of Thinking Clearly
― The Art of Thinking Clearly
“It’s OK to be envious – but only of the person you aspire to become.”
― The Art of Thinking Clearly: The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making
― The Art of Thinking Clearly: The Secrets of Perfect Decision-Making
“Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
“You deny them hope. Any man in this world, Atticus, any man who has a head and arms and legs, was born with hope in his heart. You won’t find that in the Constitution, I picked that up in church somewhere. They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn’t make them subhuman.”
― Go Set a Watchman
― Go Set a Watchman
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