"A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. It is the key to your destruction."

Unknown, Source on faults   

"Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself."

Proverb, Scottish on faults
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"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on faults
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"Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel."

Lessing, Doris on faults
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"I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them."

Hoffa, Jimmy on faults   

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."

Buscaglia, Leo on honesty
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"They're only truly great who are truly good."

Chapman, George on honesty
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"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on honesty
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"That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending."

Henry, M. on honesty   

"I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man."

Houston, Sam on honesty   

"When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to achieve or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing."

Keyes Jr., Ken on honesty
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"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want."

Mamet, David on honesty   

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Richelieu, Cardinal De on honesty   

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

Thoreau, Henry David on honesty
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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

Washington, George on honesty
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"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."

Gaskell, Elizabeth on faults
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"The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Carlyle, Thomas on faults
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"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."

Hazlitt, William on grace
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"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature."

Milne, A. A. on excuses   

"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

Selye, Hans on attitude
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"A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy."

Baudrillard, Jean on criticism   

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Thích Nhat Hanh on negativity
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"If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought."

Pilgrim, Peace on negativity
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"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."

Colby, Frank Moore on tolerance   

"Beauty and grace command the world."

Benjamin, Park on grace   

"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."

Campbell, Patrick on grace   

"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul."

Hazlitt, William on grace
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"I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!"

Armstrong, Louis on attitude
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"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]"

Bible on time   

"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."

Ruskin, John on egotism
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"One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on egotism
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"Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness."

M'Ckuen, Roger on egotism   

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Leahy, Frank on egotism
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"The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on egotism
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"Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space."

Black, Diana on egotism   

"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert on absurdity
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"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav on absurdity
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes on absurdity
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"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."

Epictetus on action
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Acton, Lord on action
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