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“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
― William James

“God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?”
― Samuel Johnson

“Your bad manners are exceeded only by your bad manners.”
― Anonymous

“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
― Thomas Carlyle

“…but let us judge not that we be not judged.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Inaugurals, the Emancipation Proclamation, Etc: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861

“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.”
― Alfred Adler, What Life Should Mean To You Hardcover

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“To recall a voter’s name is statesmanship. To forget it is oblivion.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
― William James

“Be ‘hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,’ and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime – repeat them years after you have forgotten them.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
― Galileo

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
― Lord Chesterfield

“One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing'.”
― Socrates, Apology

“A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.”
― Dale Carnegie, How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job

“Nature abhors a vacuum.”
― Aristotle

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery
That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“you give a dog a bad name, and that dog is bad for life.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“That all is as thinking makes it so – and you control your thinking. So remove your judgements whenever you wish and then there is calm - as the sailor rounding the cape finds smooth water and the welcome of a waveless bay.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“As the poet Robert Frost put it, "The only way out is through/" And the only good way through is together. Even when circumstances separate us - in fact, especially when they do - the way through is together.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.”
― D.H. Lawrence

“Miracles enable us to judge doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge miracles.”
― Blaise Pascal