If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes._ Andrew Carnegie

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Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

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You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. — Mary Pickford

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You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. _ Albert Camus

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The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

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You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

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The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.

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One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of people who will accept whatever they hear on the grapevine, just because it suits their worldview—not because it is actually true or because they have evidence to support it. The really striking thing is that it would not take much effort to establish validity in most of these cases… but people prefer reassurance to research.

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Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

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Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

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