Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.
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.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
Always do what you are afraid to do.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Be not the slave of your own past.
We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
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