Nothing external to you has any power over you.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEnvy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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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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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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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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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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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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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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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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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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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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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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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