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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONA friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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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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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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