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“The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings”
Clark Moustakas
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
Abraham Lincoln
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.”
Charles M. Schulz
“Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”
Albert Einstein
“We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”
Rachel Carson
“For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?”
Kahlil Gibran
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
Winnie the Pooh
“Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.”
Chinese Proverbs