We acquire the strength we have overcome.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONThe 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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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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A great man is always willing to be little.
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Life is a journey, not a destination.
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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 hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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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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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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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
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You are constantly invited to be what you are.
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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
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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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