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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives read more
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the read more
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake read more
The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.
'We must do something' is the unanimous refrain. 'You begin' is the deadening refrain. - The Saving Sense.
People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course read more
People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, at
the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of
rivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of the
stars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful
channel. (on focus).
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful
channel. (on focus).