Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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The years teach much the days never know.
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
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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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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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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.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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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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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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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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Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.
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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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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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