The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONFor everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
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There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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