The real purpose

The real purpose
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking
  

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Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!
By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.
Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.
Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.
Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.
Wenever have the time to do it right but always have time to do it over.
There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.
People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...
Wheneveryou're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make thedifference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factoris attitude.
Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.
Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.