What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.
I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Make the decision and say, "I'm not letting that worry in. I'm done being upset when my plans don't work out. I'm not letting that stress in." Negative thoughts will still come to your mind, but you don't have to let them into your spirit.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.
To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.
Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
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