Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
The struggle to the top alone will make human hearts swell.
- Topic: Adversity, Alone, Work
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Always go too far, because that’s where you’ll find the truth.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Individuals are the sum of their unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments. What matters is not the barriers they face, but how they choose to confront them. And their race is not to blame for everything—good or bad—that happens in their lives.
No garden is without its weeds.
May your troubles be less and your blessings be more.
So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
I love people. I love my family, my children… but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.
It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
I’m fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I’d like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don’t like being alone because they truly don’t like themselves, but I love me.
No man is born unto himself alone; who lives unto himself, he lives to none.
Who works with all the strength he can Shall never die in debt to man.
No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.
How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.