It is not the length of life, but the depth.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFew 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 acquire the strength we have overcome.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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