Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure. read more

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may
defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the
fact because you think you are.

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered read more

Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change
their lives, but I've met read more

I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change
their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their
motive to service in order to change their lives.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty
into an interesting opportunity.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty
into an interesting opportunity.

He who hesitates is probably right.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and read more

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.