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Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the read more
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and read more
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator read more
If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we read more
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do read more
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give
me liberty or give me death.
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give
me liberty or give me death.