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 EMERSONLove, and you shall be loved.
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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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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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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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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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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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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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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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You become what you think about all day long.
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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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