As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonRead
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.
The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself
No matter how much pressure you feel at work, if you could find ways to relax for at least five minutes every hour, you’d be more productive.
Never play a thing the same way twice.
Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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