Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONSorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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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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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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