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The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a read more
The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, read more
The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my
life, what I want and what read more
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my
life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.
To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.
When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of read more
When your views on the world and your intellect are being challenged
and you begin to feel uncomfortable because of a contradiction you've
detected that is threatening your current model of the world or some
aspect of it, pay attention. You are about to learn something. This
discomfort and intellectual conflict is when learning is taking place.
