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The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Hemingway

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It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.

e. e. cummings

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I decided to be happy because it is good for my health.

    

-Voltaire

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Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.

Charles Mingus

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There is almost one time that is important - Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power.

Leo Tolstoy

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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

-William Morris

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The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears. -Samuel Johnson

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Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

- William Morris

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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

-Robert Louis Stevensen

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I do the same thing over and over, improving bit by bit. There is always a yearning to achieve more. I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top, but no one knows where the top is. -Jiro Ono

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Books, we know,

Are a substantial world, both pure and good.

Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,

Our pastime and happiness will grow.

-William Wordsworth

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It's never too late to realize a dream.

-Andrew Weil

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares, but a contented mind is a hidden treasure.

     -Akhenaten

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The man who is himself at ease can best attend to the distress of others.

     -Adam Smith

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it arrives dressed in overalls and looks like work.

     -Thomas Edison

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
   
      -Confucius

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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and how you do it.

            -Maya Angelou

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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God, do you learn.

            -C.S. Lewis