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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood read more
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders -- what would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Wind buffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he read more
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
