Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental
habit.

Worry is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental
habit.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at read more

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if
he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.

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.

If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.

If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.

Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks
his neck out.

Behold the turtle: He only makes progress when he sticks
his neck out.

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about
unimaginable.

We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about
unimaginable.

He who hesitates is probably right.

He who hesitates is probably right.