Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.
- Topic: Adversity, Thinking, Time
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It makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. . . .It’s sort of what we have instead of God.
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
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If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.
It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
If you want material prosperity, you must first think prosperity thoughts, and then make a habit of doing so, for the thing that keeps most people poor is the sheer habit of poverty thinking.
Understanding a question is half an answer.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.
Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.