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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONIt is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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