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- No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
- Richard Bach
- The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- Thomas Aquinas
- At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Lord Tennyson
- It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
- Author Unknown
- Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
- Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
- Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
- Frederika Bremer
- Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
- Samuel Smiles
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