The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Renew thyself completely each day.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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