For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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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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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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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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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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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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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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