Orison Swett Marden

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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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 perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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