Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings and emotions

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And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

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Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

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I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.

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Conceit spoils the finest genius.

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas A. Edison

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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly. ― Helen Keller

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There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves.

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