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“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”
“Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.”
“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.”
“The dreamers are the saviors of the worlds.”
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.”
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
“Do not try to be on the side of the majority, but live according to your inner laws.”
“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
“If you can dream it, then you can do it.”
“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”
“Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas. ”
“Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.”
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”
“Don't just sit there. Do something. The answers will follow.”
“The greatest miracle is to be alive.”
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
“It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.”
““If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is…we were made for another world.””
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.”
“The fact that we imagine ourselves to be right and everybody else wrong is the greatest of all obstacles in the path towards unity...”
“Ability is a poor man's wealth.”
“It takes a long time to become young.”
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