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No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.

The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

It also makes for contentedness, when things happen against our wish, not to overlook our many advantages and comforts, but by looking at both good and bad to feel that the good preponderate.

This joy of life, this joy of work, in man is absolutely true.

We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.

Only love is motion and rest in one.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a thousand years.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Into the most pitiful and abject it will infuse a heart and courage to defy the world, so only it have the countenance of the beloved object.

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of nature. If I cannot achieve it, at least I can think it.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

We cannot expect to make everyone our friend, but we can try to make no one our enemy.