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.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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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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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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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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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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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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It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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