The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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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 hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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