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“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.”

“A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”

“Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.”

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”

“The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.”

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”