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 EMERSONTrust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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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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Love, and you shall be loved.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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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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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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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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