What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

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All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.

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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

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