To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action
© Michael Hanson @quote
The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers
© Thich Nhat Hanh @quote
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures
© Lao Tzu @quote
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
© Plato @quote
So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains
© Ralph Emerson @quote
Spring is a time for rebirth and the fulfilment of new life.
© Byron Pulsifer @quote
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
© Harriet Stowe @quote
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery
© Samuel Smiles @quote
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind
© Ralph Emerson @quote
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition
© Honore De Balzac @quote
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
© Thomas Jefferson @quote
Staying in one place is the best path to be taken over and surpassed by many
© Byron Pulsifer @quote
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
© Gloria Steinem @quote
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something
© Franklin D. Roosevelt @quote
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds
© Will Durant @quote
I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.
© William White @quote
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat
© Napoleon Hill @quote
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
© Kahlil Gibran @quote
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle
© Anais Nin @quote
Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.
© Margaret Runbeck @quote
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it
© Lao Tzu @quote
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence
© Buddha @quote