Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. 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 what you fear and your fear will die.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.
Your actions speak so loud, I can't hear what you say.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Lose yourself in nature and find peace
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.
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.
Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.
For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud - a rainbow... For each shadow - the sun... For each parting - sweet memories when sorrow is done.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
We don't grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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