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