To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONI 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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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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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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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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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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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Cultivate 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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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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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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Love, and you shall be loved.
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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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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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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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