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There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.

Theory must also take into account the human element; it must accord a place to courage, to boldness, even to rashness.

This west coast makes me remember with pleasure the free, unbounded plains of Patagonia; yet, with the true spirit of contradiction, I cannot forget how sublime is the silence of the forest.

In proportion as the years both lessen and shorten, I set more count upon their periods, and would fain lay my ineffectual finger upon the spoke of the great wheel.

Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

A thing was worth buying then, when we felt the money that we paid for it.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.

You’ll never see a U-haul behind a hearse.

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Life is not only short, but uncertain, and art is not only long, but absorbing.

Do you think I was born to live the life of an oyster, such as I do live here?

The love of protecting too often degenerates into downright tyranny.

Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.

See that you do nothing like a sheep; but if you do, in this case also the man is lost.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.