Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONMost of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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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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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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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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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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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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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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