Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.
I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don’t make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Courage is exhilarating.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.
To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.
Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.
When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.
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