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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. - Author object (57)

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Author object (57)

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Author object (57)

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you. - Author object (57)

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. - Author object (57)

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Author object (57)

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. - Author object (57)

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Author object (57)

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Author object (57)

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. - Author object (57)

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old. - Author object (57)

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Author object (57)

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. - Author object (57)

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Author object (57)

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Author object (57)

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. - Author object (57)

To be great is to be misunderstood. - Author object (57)

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Author object (57)

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know. - Author object (57)

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Author object (57)