You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Don't give the small things more time than they deserve.
- Topic: Goals, Time
- Location: Yellowstone National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.