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The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or read more
The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't read more
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Tolstoy.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.