A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.
Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life.
- Topic: Life, Vision
- Location: Lake Tahoe
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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.
