After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not love, just because it perished?
It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness.
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If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.
There is no growth without discontent.
Heaviest thing to carry -- a grudge
It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Break a bad habit -- drop it
Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.
Practice in time becomes second nature.
Man is occasionally what he should be perpetually.
There is an old saying that, you can't kill a frog by dropping him into hot water. As you drop him into the hot water, he reacts so quickly that he immediately jumps out unharmed. But if you put him in cold water and gradually warm it up until it is scalding hot, you have him cooked before he knows it. The encroachment of bad habits in our lives is very much like this.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
It's just as easy to form the habit of succeeding as it is to succumb to the habit of failure. Habits aren't instincts; they're acquired reactions. They don't just happen; they are caused. Once you determine the original cause of a habit, it is within your power either to accept or reject it.
Trivial things do matter... more people are killed each year by the bite of mosquitoes than are stepped upon by charging elephants.
The thing that counts most in the pursuit of happiness is choosing the right companion.
The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a life time.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price.
If you're ever given the choice between happiness and intelligence choose happiness
It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.
Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The biggest lie on the planet: When I get what I want, I will be happy.
Not what you have, but what you see; Not what you see, but what you choose; Not what seems fair, but what is true; Not what you dream, but what you do; Not what you take, but what you give; Not as you pray, but as you live. These are the things that mar or bless The sum of human happiness.
Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.
After what we can say you can be sure the happy heart will make the happy day.
Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.
Happiness is good for the body but sorrow strengthens the spirit.
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.
Anthony D'Angelo
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.
Don't fear change -- embrace it.
Three classes of people: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.
Leonardo DaVinci
Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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