You Have Lived And Lived Well

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. -Benjamin Disraeli

He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. -Seneca

"If you put fences around people, you get sheep."
-William McKnight

What is emphasized will either make you miserable
or make you happy. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castaneda

Every one has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases. -Jeremy Collier

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. -Mahatma Gandhi

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -Thoreau

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz

The world is a great book, of which they who stir not from home read only a page. -St Augustine

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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. -David Starr Jordan

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -Samuel Butler

Preservation of Self-Approval

You, yourself, have got to see that there is no just interpretation of life except in terms of life's best things. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.
-Minot Simons

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson