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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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.
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Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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