"The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on eyes
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on difficulties
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"The secret in education lies in respecting the student."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"How much of human life is lost in waiting."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on expectation
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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come naturally to us and are good in themselves, although we may corrupt them. We are commanded to love our neighbor because our natural attitude toward the other is one of either indifference or hostility."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on achievement
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success."

Hayes, Helen on achievement
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality"

Jung, Carl on achievement
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Love is a gift from God, and as we obey His laws and genuinely learn to serve others, we develop God's love in our lives. Love of God is the means of unlocking divine powers which help us to live worthily and to overcome the world."

Haight, David B. on love
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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