It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONI 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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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.
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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
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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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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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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
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Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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