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Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize read more
The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but
rather as a problem with ourselves, read more
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but
rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will
immediately feel overwhelmed.
Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It
is not the conviction that something will read more
Hope is an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It
is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty
that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,
such enchanted musical instruments as the read more
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes,
such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous
arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than
a god.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them
Benjamin Franklin said it first.