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 EMERSONEvery artist was first an amateur.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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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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You become what you think about all day long.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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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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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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