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 EMERSONMake the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
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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.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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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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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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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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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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