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 EMERSONIt 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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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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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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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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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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The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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