We acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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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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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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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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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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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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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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