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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
Playing safe is only playing.
Playing safe is only playing.
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching read more
I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
The sun will set without thy assistance.
The sun will set without thy assistance.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere read more
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what
we say or what we do, but what read more
The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what
we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions
come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic)
rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will
sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the
foundation necessary for effective interdependence.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
