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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.
Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
The life of man is so short that ordinary people simply cannot afford to be born.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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