Blaise Pascal

I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.

Topic: Time
Location: Lake Tahoe
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

› Blaise Pascal

Misfortune

Appreciation compliment Kindness

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

› Blaise Pascal

Friendship

What is a man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

› Blaise Pascal

Perception

Reputation Self

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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Love Truth

Perception Solitude

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

› Blaise Pascal

Conflict Society

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Courage Fear Purpose Self Self-esteem Vision

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. — William James

Acceptance Adversity Misfortune Stress

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. — Martha Graham

Courage Self

As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords. — Mark Twain

Appreciation Awareness Gratitude Nature Solitude

More on Time

The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up the same. — Marcel Proust

Habits Inspiration Passion Time

Time is the only critic without ambition. — John Steinbeck

Ambition Time

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

Patience Strength Time

It is time for a new general of leadership, to cope with the new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. — John F. Kennedy

Leadership Opportunity Time

I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.

› Joseph Conrad

Age Time

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

Opportunity Time

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. — Leonardo da Vinci

Goals Preparation Time

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.

› John Dryden

Happiness Self-esteem Time

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

› Samuel Johnson

Life Time

An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.

› Dale Carnegie

Action Planning Thinking Time