Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
- Topic: Action
- Location: Face Rock, Oregon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.
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What you are not, you can never be, until and unless you do something about it.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
You don’t just luck into things as much as you’d like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it’s friendships or opportunities.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
