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“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”

“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”

“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”

“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

“What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.”

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.”

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”