Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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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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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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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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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
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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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