Always do what you are afraid to do.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe earth laughs in flowers.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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Love, and you shall be loved.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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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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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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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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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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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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