One of man’s biggest mistakes is to believe that he’s working for someone else.
Nashua Cavalier
You are always working for yourself. You may be an important employee to someone, but for yourself you are everything. You are your life. You work for yourself!
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
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When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you king for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it is not a man’s father, mother or wife,
Whose judgement upon him must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in life,
Is the man staring back from the glass.
He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he’s with you clear to the end,
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test,
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But the final reward will be heartache and tears,
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.Dale Wimbrow
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Man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked.
Viktor Frankl
You give meaning to your life, nobody else can.
You decide what is of importance and what keeps you motivated.
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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Seneca
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Go into the arts. I’m not kidding.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem.
Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward.
You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Life is not as serious as the mind makes it out to be.
Eckhart Tolle
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