We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Don't find fault, find a remedy.
When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
When your feeling down, do you know you can change it, like that. Put on a beautiful piece of music, start singing, that will change your emotion - or think of something beautiful, think of a baby, maybe one you love, really keep that thought in your mind, block out everything but that thought. I guarantee you'll start to feel good.
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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