To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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