"Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others."
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"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest"
"All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey."
"I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way."
"I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways."
"No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way."
"Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player."
"Life has a way of demanding that you live it."
"General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living."
"I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me."
"The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life."
"Everyone I meet is in some way my superior."
"My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better."
"You look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is."
"One way to avoid what has already been done is to be true to yourself."
"It seems to me that the best way will be the one that is most gentle and forbearing, which is more in conformity with the Spirit of Our Lord and more apt to win hearts."
"So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us."
"I'm way different than I was last year. You learn something new every year. I learned a whole lot from last season and a whole lot from this season. I'm still learning."
"What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?"
"And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them."