Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living read more

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of read more

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new read more

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.