It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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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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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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