Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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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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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Every wall is a door.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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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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