Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.
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One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you.
One love, one heart, one destiny.
This is the thing that I was born to do.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.
An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.
There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.
You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.