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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you and give thanks continuously.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“Every artist was first an amateur who looked at the world with fresh eyes filled with wonder”
“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness indeed to be simple is to be great”
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds.”
“To be great is to be misunderstood.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of peace.”
“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”
“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.”
“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”
“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Decide to be peaceful.”
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.”
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
“The only way to have a friend is to be one”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen and that is faith”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the simplest and greatest accomplishment”
“You will always be your childs favorite toy.”
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore!”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common and find wonder everywhere”
“People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
“The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.”
“Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.”
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late”
“Every wall is a door.”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself. Nobody can make you happy but yourself.”
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness”
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
“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.”
“What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be”
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.”
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
“This time like all times is a very good one if we but know what to do with it”
“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
“Write in your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”
“Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.”
“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us filled with wonder”
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.”
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm”
“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
“It is easy in the world to live after the worlds 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”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“For each new morning with its light for rest and shelter of the night for health and food for love and friends for everything thy goodness sends.”
“The great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps the independence of solitude”
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
“The earth laughs in flowers”
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful for beauty is Gods handwriting”
“Self-trust is the first secret of success.”
“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”
“The first wealth is health.”
“Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.”
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year”
“Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
“Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — this is to have succeeded.”
“To fill the hour — that is happiness.”
“The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be useful honorable and compassionate”
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature”
“The world belongs to the energetic.”
“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
“Life is a journey not a destination.”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“The reward of a thing well done is having done it.”
“Every natural action is graceful when it is performed in the presence of the soul.”
“The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”
“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
“Believe in yourself.”
“The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood.”
“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
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