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Orison Swett Marden reminds us that chasing what others have blocks true enjoyment. He compares life to a giant kindergarten where each mountain, each lesson teaches stability, grandeur, and the need to think bigger about ourselves. He also says we must stay connected to other people, give our whole effort, and see every day and every article as a chance to act our best.

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“no man will ever be willing to live a half-life when he has once seen that it is a half-life.”

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“whether it is an engine or a human brain,—exercise or deteriorate is the law of life.”

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What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.

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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made…

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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

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The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor…

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“We long for freedom, we want to soar, to try the wings God gave us; yet we are losing our power because…

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“deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, powers that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would…

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“Specialties facilitate commerce, and promote efficiency in the professions, but are often narrowing to individuals. The spirit of the age tends to…

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“Your highest ideal, the vision of your life work which you long to make real, is your best friend. Keep as close…

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“The majority of people carry in their minds and in their hearts, grudges, jealousy, envy, antipathies, prejudices, which, although not very pronounced…

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“The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the…

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly,…

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches…

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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must…

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“The only way to be happy is to take advantage of the little opportunities that come to us to brighten life as…

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“If we were all in our right places, doing the thing nature planned us to do, our work would be almost like…

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“Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career…

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Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,…

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“The very habit of expecting that the future is full of good things for you, that you are going to be prosperous…

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper…

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There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.…

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“One of the strangest things in life is the false ideas everywhere prevalent regarding the nature of happiness. The general belief seems…

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“Tell me what you think of yourself, show me your estimate of your possibilities, and I will predict your future. Your vision…

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“We believe in a man in proportion to his immovableness from principle, the fixity of his faith in his mission. The man…

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“Hate seed in the heart cannot produce a love flower in the life. A sinister thought will produce a sinister harvest. The…

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“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what…

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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper…

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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a…

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“It is not so much a question of how far you have traveled as which way you face. It is facing life…

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every…

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“The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper…

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Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured…

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“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears…

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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate…

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“A fatal penalty awaits those who always look on the dark side of everything, who are always predicting evil and failure, who…

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“We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one…

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“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.”

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“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;”

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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better…

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you…

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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

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“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the…

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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

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“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his…

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

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