Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONShallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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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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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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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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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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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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