It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Topic: Adversity, Attitude, Mistakes, Optimism
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
The shell must break before the bird can fly.
You will learn that no matter how many pieces your heart was broken into, the world will not stop for you to fix it.
Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
I am not remotely interested in just being good.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Creativity is often blocked to trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.
Aloha is free.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
