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.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not read more

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

Let your intentions create your methods and not the other way around.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and read more

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare
moments when we are stirred by an read more

We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare
moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher
and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a
force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident
and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to
be taken over by our unquestioning self.

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to read more

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed for our fathers from the wild. A land wherein to rest.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp read more

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,
that I can do, any kindness that read more

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore,
that I can do, any kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it
now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.