Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
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Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
What is to give light must endure burning.
Believing there's no God means I can't really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That's good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.
I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.
Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.
Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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