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Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.

Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

The past material conditions of life have gone for ever; no will of man can recall them.

For life is immortal youthfulness, and it hates age that tries to clog its movements--age that belongs not to life in truth, but follows it as the shadow follows the lamp.

It is for our self to know that it must be born anew every moment of its life.

The more man acts and makes actual what was latent in him, the nearer does he bring the distant Yet-to-be.

There is no cutting of the Gordian knots of life; each must be smilingly unravelled.

The length of man's life, which is endless to the brave and busy, is scorned by his ambitious thought.

Great evils are in some cases only to be met by resistance; they cannot be wept down, but must be battled down.

We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

If we would put some slight stress on ourselves at the beginning, then afterwards we should be able to do all things with ease and joy.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again

The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

Our supreme task is the resumption of our onward, normal way.

Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.

It is notorious that a single successful effort of moral volition, such as saying 'no' to some habitual temptation, or performing some courageous act, will launch a man on a higher level of energy for days and weeks, will give him a new range of power.

The transformation, moreover, is a chronic one: the new level of energy becomes permanent.

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.

Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

If you dream of it, it isn't impossible. You long for it because it's meant for you. You are meant to drop fears and inhibitions and chase what sets your soul on fire. A shake up in your current life is almost always followed by something better, something awesome.

the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step

A better life starts with small, consistent, boring actions you repeat day after day, even when you don't feel like it. One day you turn back and realise you have come farther than you could imagine. Allow life to change for the better.