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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFear always springs from ignorance.
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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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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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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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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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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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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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