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I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?
The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place
Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.
Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?