Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

Let the beauty of what you love, be what you do.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain read more

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but
rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled read more

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep read more

Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. - Works and Days.

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up read more

It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up because by then I was too famous.

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that read more

Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"

You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful
channel. (on focus).

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful
channel. (on focus).