Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
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What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
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Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Count your blessings. You are one of a kind. There’s no one in the world like you. You are amazing.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
