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“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.”
“My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.”
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
“Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.”
“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”
“Do what makes u feel alive never belive anyone is for u cuz in the end u stand alone”
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, expect to win.”
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
“I was born great, education ruined me.”
“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
“One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.”
“The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind.”
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