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To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and read more
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less
than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
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.
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure. read more
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for
that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may
defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the
fact because you think you are.
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things
turn out.