Being totally honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic

Honesty Personal development

Author

Sigmund Freud

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Psychologist Writer

From

Austria Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 15 Oct. 1897.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

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When a man spends the least possible number of movements over one definite action, that is grace.

Anton Chekhov

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Topic
Grace

Author

Anton Chekhov
Medium
Letter
Statement Type
Definition
Language
Russian
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Letter to Alexi Peshkov (Maxim Gorky). 3 Jan. 1899.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "To Alexi Peshkov (Gorky), 3 January 1899, Yalta." A Life in Letters, translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Another quote originally in German

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

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Topic
Conscience

Author

Karl Barth
Language
German
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Barth, Karl. "The Righteousness of God." Das Wort Gottes und die Theologie [The Word of God and Theology]. Mchn., Kaiser, 1924. Originally a lecture called "The Righteousness of God" delivered 16 Jan. 1916 in City Church, Aarau, Switzerland.

Another quote of the following type Advice

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

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Topic
Facing one's fears Courage Fear

Author

John Berryman
Source
A Point of Age
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Advice
Language
English
Time
1942 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Berryman, John. "A Point of Age." Poems. New Directions, 1942.