It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONWe acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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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.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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