To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Books are for nothing but to inspire
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means
Every really able man, in whatever direction he works - a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter - if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be. What is this Better, this flying Ideal, but the perpetual promise of his Creator?
Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment.
A rush of thoughts is the only conceivable prosperity that can come to us.
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