Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
- Randolph Bourne
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
- Victor Hugo
Quality begins on the inside...... and then works its way out.
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
- Harold B. Melchart
To live is to Love as one learns and lives as if each Day May Be Your Last then and only then can you Love and Live in Harmony.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world ý making the most of one's best.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
- Paul Goodman
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is hard to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline.
- W. L. Shirer
SUCCESS
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
| Growing past disappointment |
Each disappointment in your life will continue to weigh you down only until you learn and accept what that it has to teach you. The moment a disappointment becomes a learning and growing experience is the moment in which it is transformed into a triumph.
The chance to learn from your shortcomings and grow out of your disappointments is one of the richest opportunities you can ever experience. Adversity is a thorough, effective and highly personalized teacher. The powerful lessons learned in the midst of disappointment will stay with you always.
When you can bring yourself to be grateful for your problems you'll begin to harvest their positive value. Life is difficult; out of that difficulty grows meaning and beauty. In each disappointment is the seed of fulfillment. Learn what it has to teach and you'll be moving yourself forward. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
- James Harvey Robinson Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.
- F.W. Faber I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American Poet and Essayist Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our courage and strength, if you accept the lessons tought, you will overcome all which may be put in your way. IT IS EASY TO LAUGH; IT IS EASY TO HURT; IT TAKES STRENGTH TO BE KIND AND GENTLE. The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- W.J. Davison
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
- James Buckham
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