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"The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development

"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship

"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation

"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
Language

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage."
Marriage

"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."
Psychology

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
Time

"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
Inspirational

"I want to be all used up when I die."
Want

"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."
Man
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