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 But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?  Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 'tis the happy who have called thee so. Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty. - Lao-Tzu A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. Skeptics are never deceived. Everybody forgets the basic thing: people are not going to love you unless you love them. I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone. Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires. The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy, but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardour, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Enjoy the successes that you have, and don't be too hard on yourself when you don't do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it. Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open. Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures. You have to fall in love with hanging around words. 
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