Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowRead
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?
To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?
The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.
I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.
Reality continues to ruin my life.
If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
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