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 EMERSONCultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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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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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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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Every wall is a door.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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