The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any … - Henry David Thoreau

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The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

Henry David Thoreau

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

Cheer, Confusion, Dust, History, Shines

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Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!

Back, Past, Simple, Simplify, Struggle, Worrying

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

Beauty Within, Look, Looks, Possible, Question, See

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Adventure, Dead Poets Society, Live, Nature, Wished, Woods

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

Dream, Inspiration, Island, Lying, Neighbors, Opportunities

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Inspirational, Look, Matters, Motivational, Positive, See

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Wang Yangming

The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.

Believe, Inspirational, Lying, Making, Mistake, Virtue

Markus Zusak

. . . one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Death, Leads, Life And Death, Opportunity, Risk

Alexander Pope

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Blameless, Forgetting, Happiness, Obscurity, Sunshine, World

Eddie Vedder

Wind in my hair, I feel part of everywhere Underneath my being is a road that disappeared Late at night I hear the trees, they're singing with the dead Overhead.

Disappeared, Hair, Night, Part, Singing, Wind

Mother Teresa