“People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.”
George Eliot book Middlemarch
Source: Middlemarch
“Misery is almost always the result of thinking.”
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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824Related quotes
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On Mahatma Gandhi<!-- p. 506 (1949) / p. 310 (1961) -->
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Context: I knew that Gandhiji usually acts on instinct (I prefer to call it that than the "inner voice" or an answer to prayer) and very often that instinct is right. He has repeatedly shown what a wonderful knack he has of sensing the mass mind and of acting at the psychological moment. The reasons which he afterward adduces to justify his action are usually afterthoughts and seldom carry one very far. A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
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“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
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Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“I don’t think of all the misery, but the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
