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The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#ashamed #brave #cowardly #evasive #eyes

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

When one ceases from conflict, whether because he has won, because he has lost, or because he cares no more for the game, the virtue passes out of him. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#cares #ceases #conflict #game #him

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#failure #life #part #permanent #success

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blame #find #harder #living #living alone

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#mistakes #only #originality #universal

A blocked path also offers guidance. ↗