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You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.
Sep 10, 2025
Your life belongs to you and you alone.
Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
Always do what you can do instead of worrying about what you can't.
Feeling stuck or indecisive? Listen to your intuition and make a decision
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.
If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.
If you don't ask, the answer is always no.
The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it well and serenely
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Beautiful people do not just happen
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
This above all; to thine own self be true.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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