Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however be humble;
it is a real possession in the changing of fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less then the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here. And whether not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you may conceive him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all it's sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be careful. Strive to be happy.

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Quotes

What lies behind us, and what lies before us - are tiny matters,
compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

Sophocles

I am as sure as that I was alive, that happiness not only needs no justification, but it is also the only final test of wether I am doing what is right for me.
Only of course happiness is not the same as pleasure; it includes the pain of losing as well as the pleasure of finding.

Joanna Field

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One cannot get through life without pain.....
What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents us.

Bernie S. Siegel

Life becmomes the ultimate answer to the ultimate human question.

Macleish

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Life is difficult

That is the great truth, one of the greatest truths
It is the great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it.
Once we truly know that life is difficult -once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult.
Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Travelled