Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
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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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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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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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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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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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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Beauty without expression is boring.
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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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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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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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