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 EMERSONPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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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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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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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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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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