The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONNothing 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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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.
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In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.
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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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Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
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It is not the length of life, but the depth.
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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 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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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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You become what you think about all day long.
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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
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