"If you are to be kept right,..." - Quote by Diogenes
If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.
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More on Relationships
“I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.”
“It is your friends who make your world.”
“I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”
More on Growth
“When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.”
“I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.”
“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.”