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 EMERSONThe 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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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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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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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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You become what you think about all day long.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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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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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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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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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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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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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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