Eugene J. Martin Short Quotes

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The words human nature can be the greatest obstacle to human growth.

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There are lesser people not for what they are, but for why they are.

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Defensive thinkers best defend themselves from knowing who they are.

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When making a commitment, make it not to someone, but of someone to yourself.

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People fight not because they disagree, but because they don't know they agree.

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Just as feelings grow out of ignorance, intuition should grow out of knowledge.

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People have learned to escape reality very well but too often lose their way back.

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Passion is a disguise for attachment – sometimes as hate and other times as love.

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Genius does not only require superior knowledge and skill, but also superior patience.

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The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

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Being able to communicate with someone doesn't necessarily mean that you understand them.

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In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.

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All things – great, small, good, bad, friend, enemy—should be a lesson, not an obsession.

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Sometimes when you feed on another's word you must eat it like a banana – you peel it first.

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Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

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Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth.

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It's past time that people get involved in thinking – now that the computers can take over the field of memory.

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While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

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Because of subconscious guilt, people spend half their lives in self-punishment and the other half taking on more guilt.

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Rather than studying the laws of cause and effect, people spend their lives being the effect and running from the cause.

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The more fortunate people among us would surely think we are civilized, but the less fortunate among us are a reminder that we're not.

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Because of guilt there is painful diversion; because of greed there is playful diversion; because of grass there is pleasurable diversion.

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Beware of the possible reason some people are honestly down and out - it is because they tried to copy the many who are superficially doing well.

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People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.

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Americans are simple people with simple interests – The only time they sincerely ask why about anything is when they don't receive their paychecks.

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