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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to
always reach my destination.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to
always reach my destination.
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It
is for us to put read more
The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. It
is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but
as a group decide nothing can be read more
A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but
as a group decide nothing can be done.
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage read more
Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not
one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on
his ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.
There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.
There is no expedient to which a man will go to avoid the real labor of
thinking.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that read more
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve read more
What was once impossible now summons us to dismantle the walls between
ourselves and our sisters and brothers, to dissolve the distinctions
between flesh and spirit, to transcend the present limits of time and
matter, to find, at last, not wealth or power but the ecstasy (so long
forgotten) of commonplace, unconditional being. For the atom's soul is
nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of
every woman or man-the heart of it-is pure and holy joy.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing
well, you're needed by someone.
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing
well, you're needed by someone.
