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61 " The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. "
62 " Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Picture of Dorian Gray
63 " I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world. "
64 " Superhero movies are so famous because of the metaphor that they trigger in one's self about who you could be if things were different. "
65 " To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness. "
66 " The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. "
67 " The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. "
68 " What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about? "
69 " To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. "
70 " The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. "