Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life - it is all within yourself and in your way of thinking.
Benjamin Mays
The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
Carl Jung
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Author Unknown
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Author unknown
To reach any goal requires that we be unyielding about where we intend to go, but flexible about how to get there.
Vincent Van Gogh
If you hear a voice within you saying "you are not a painter", then by all means paint...and that voice will be silenced.
HIGH FLIGHT, by Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings:
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up in the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings:
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up in the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Mark Twain
Dance like nobody's watching;
Love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening;
Live like it's heaven on earth.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Sing like nobody's listening;
Live like it's heaven on earth.
Found inscribed over a doorway at Westminster Abbey
Of the craftsmen it may be said that
in the handiwork of their craft is their prayer.
in the handiwork of their craft is their prayer.
Longfellow, Ladder of Saint Augustine, st. 10
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
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