When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always
tempted to ask, "Compared to what?".

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always
tempted to ask, "Compared to what?".

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the
anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, read more

For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the
anvil, bear-When you are the hammer, strike.

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small
voice" within me.

The only tyrant I will accept in this world is the "still small
voice" within me.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw
exclusively from his own resources.

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw
exclusively from his own resources.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

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.

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've
molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, read more

Internalization. This occurs when you've exploited impact, when you've
molded the standard material to your needs and made it yours, when you've
made your new skills strong through hard use. All of a sudden these new
concepts stopped churning within you, and a new reality is born: You and
the concepts are one. They have literally become you. You have become
them.