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Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own
doorstep is unclean.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own
doorstep is unclean.
Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.
Given a big enough why people can bear almost any how.
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum
strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum
strategies and repeating them until they become habits.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real
life. But there was read more
For a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin; Real
life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be got
through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt
to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these
obstacles were my life.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's
superiority to all that befalls him.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's
superiority to all that befalls him.
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early
in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards read more
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early
in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually
directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation
strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and
resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out read more
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
