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“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.”
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“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
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“Life is a journey, not a destination.”
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“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
― Self-Reliance and Other Essays
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