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I animated my summary of Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. On top of my personal story of growing up pretty much on my own I share how to achieve Self-Reliance and how I set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant & time-bound (SMART) goals for myself.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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