What we do now echoes in eternity.
- Topic: Goals, Mission, Purpose
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.
The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
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Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.
Action expresses priorities.
Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
