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A transcendent being can be any miracle.
A transcendent being can be any miracle.
Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.
Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it.
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could
do it so well that no one read more
Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could
do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of read more
What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.
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.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all
darknesses.
The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all
darknesses.
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is
malpractice.
In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is
malpractice.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a
Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a
Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
