The point of life is happiness.
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The point of life is happiness.
It is foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Inner freedom is not guided by our efforts; it comes from seeing what is true.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
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