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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human read more
It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind read more
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that read more
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
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. . . So often do the spirits
Of great events stride on before the events,
And in to-day already walks to-morrow.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind read more
Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
