We acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONEven in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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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.
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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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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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