It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
RALPH WALDO EMERSONTo know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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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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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.
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Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
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