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Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks read more
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he read more
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus
keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
[Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus
magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows read more
These are days when no one should rely unduly on his "competence." Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 read more
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting read more
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.
"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee;
Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."
"Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee;
Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones read more
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great ones make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and read more
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.