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When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
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The art of listening needs its highest development in listening to oneself; our most important task is to develop an ear that can really hear what we're saying.
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Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
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The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".
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Suggest Revision: When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
  
Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
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