The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
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The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine read more
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.
Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping
is a waste of dreaming, and read more
Staying up all night is a waste of sleeping, and a waste of sleeping
is a waste of dreaming, and dreaming is important because the more
dreams you have, the better chance of one coming true.
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the
rewards of success.
Loser's visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the
rewards of success.
Love without attachment is light.
Love without attachment is light.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the
highest flight of human wisdom.
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the
highest flight of human wisdom.
Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all
Together we stand, divided we fall.
