For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONOur chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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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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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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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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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 friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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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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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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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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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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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