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The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

Never lower your price, add value.

A miracle drug is any drug that will do what the label says it will do.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.

Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

The secret of success is to be like a duck, Smooth and unruffled on top, But paddling furiously underneath.

All our problems, all our disputes, all our disagreements can be resolved quickly to mutual satisfaction if we address the question.

There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

At a lecture I am asked to pronounce my name three times. I try to be slow and emphatic, "Anaïs - Anaïs - Anaïs. You just say "Anna" and then add "ees," with the accent on the "ees."

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

I'm the happiest the saddest guy in the world can be.

What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul.

I had always turned it down-to me, smoking pot was absolutely the worst thing in the world. I thought of it as an addiction, and all my friends who smoked it, I felt they really needed help.

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

My daddy, or papa as Ilike to call him is always healthy. Sure, he had the herpes but he managed it very well!

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual object, whose appeal is outside the subject's control. Addiction arises when the subject has full control over a pleasure and can ponder it at will. It is primarily a matter of sensory pleasure, and involves a kind of short-circuiting of the pleasure network. Addiction is characterized by a loss of the emotional dynamic that would otherwise govern an outward-directed, cognitively creative life.

Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.