What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.

What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. read more

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all read more

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men read more

I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping stones
Or their dead selves to higher things.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to read more

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make
sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.