“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
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“Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.”
“The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever”
“It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey”
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself”
“Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer”
“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple”
“Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less”
“First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe”
“The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done”
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves”
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain”
“What worries you, masters you”
“Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time”
“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions”