Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp read more

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are
taken out, it's just sort of a tired read more

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are
taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people
visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is read more

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people
visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible.
And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the
heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn read more

Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of the
heart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the
certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.