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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo be great is to be misunderstood.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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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 earth laughs in flowers.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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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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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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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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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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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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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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