Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.
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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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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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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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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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We are always getting ready to live but never living.
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Every wall is a door.
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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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When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
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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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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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