There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves, otherwise we harden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

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To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People cannot change who you are and what you were born to be.

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