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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if read more
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed read more
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey!
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, read more
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for read more
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.