"Our strength grows out of our weakness."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on weakness
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on common sense
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"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on contradiction   

"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage   

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courage
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"Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on courtesy   

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on curiosity
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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"There is no instinct like that of the heart."

Byron, Lord on intuition
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

Dalai Lama on happiness
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"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on anger
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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned."

Buddha on anger
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"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

Buddha on purpose
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"A weed is a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on virtue   

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"I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on upbringing   

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --Let there be truth between us two forevermore."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on opposites   

"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on perseverance
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"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on art   

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on religion
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"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on war
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"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-expression   

"No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-reliance
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"We acquire the strength we have overcome."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on strength
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on success
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"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talent   

"It is a happy talent to know how to play."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talent   

"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on talent
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"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

Buddha on war
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"Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on acceptance
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"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

Berger, John on photography   

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."

Jung, Carl on knowledge
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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

Jung, Carl on chaos
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