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“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“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.”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.”

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

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

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

“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”

“To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.”

“Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is doing and why, or what he is saying, or thinking, or scheming -- in a word, anything that distracts you from fidelity to the ruler within you -- means a loss of opportunity for some other task.”