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Hate has four letters, but so does love. Enemies has seven letters, but so does friends. Lying has five letters, but so does truth. Failure has seven letters, but so does success. Cry has three letters, but so does joy. Negativity has ten letters, but so does positivity. You always have a choice, so choose the better side of it.

I looked in your cup to see if you had enough. You looked in mine to check if I had more than you. That difference says everything. We are not the same.

Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity.

If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.

If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.

Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.

It asks a troublesome effort to ensure the admiration of others: it is a still greater one to be satisfied with one's own thoughts.

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.

There are those who have gone, for want of this self-knowledge, strangely out of their way, and others who have never found it.

Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character, any more than professed enemies.

When this corrupting passion once takes possession of the human mind, like the love of gold it becomes insatiable.

This danger is greatly heightened, as it has been always observable that men are less jealous of encroachments of one department upon another than upon their own reserved rights.

the great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy

The American over-tension and jerkiness and breathlessness and intensity and agony of expression are primarily social, and only secondarily physiological, phenomena.

Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives usually far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

The busiest man needs no more hours of rest than the idler.

Most of us continue living unnecessarily near our surface.

Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.

But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.

One's beliefs have long been thought to be sanctuaries which government could not invade.

Surely it is hardly fitting that the ruler should be baser than the ruled.

The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.

The pure men of old slept without dreams, and waked without anxiety.

My life has a limit, but my knowledge is without limit.