Originál: (en) Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
Zdroj: [Mucha, Lukáš, Nemarněte čas sebelítostí. Místo toho vnímejte pozitivní maličkosti a učte se větší vděčnosti, Náš region, 2019-10-17, https://nasregion.cz/nemarnete-cas-sebelitosti-misto-toho-vnimejte-pozitivni-malickosti-a-ucte-se-vetsi-vdecnosti-133620/]
Zdroj: [John W. Gardner, https://www.quotes.net/quote/51653, Quotes.net, en]
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
Quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh, Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe, p. 269.
The Recovery of Confidence (1970), p. 152.
Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? (1961).
"A Nation Is Never Finished", ABA Journal (November 1967), Volume 53, page 1011.
“History never looks like history when you are living through it.”
Quoted in Rhoda Thomas Tripp, The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970), p. 280.
No Easy Victories, ed. Helen Rowan (1968), p. 57.
On Leadership (1981) p. 131