Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONLife is a journey, not a destination.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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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The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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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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Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.
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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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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Every wall is a door.
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
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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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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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