Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney J. Harriswas an American journalist for the Chicago Daily News and, later, the Chicago Sun-Times. He wrote 11 books and his weekday column, “Strictly Personal,” was syndicated in approximately 200 newspapers throughout the United States and Canada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth14 September 1917
CountryUnited States of America
love inspirational running
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
love hate differences
The principal difference between love and hate is that love is a irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
enemy lovers time-love
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
love funny change
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder-and turn quickly to my typewriter.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it.
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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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When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
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A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.