Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLet me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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