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