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 To be alive at all involves some risk.  The happy people are those who are producing something. What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it. What another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable. An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court. It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity. A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being. It is cowardice to commit suicide. - Napoleon When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral, I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them." There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions-"If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same." The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual. Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it. Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. It simply is not true that war never settles anything. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. Friends are a second existence. Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars, but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. Everyone must row with the oars he has. To climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first. 
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