One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important read more

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that
progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are read more

Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that
progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your
goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem
. . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.

People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.

People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

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.

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said read more

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less
than you settled for.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less
than you settled for.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.