Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it. .,.,
Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. .,.,
We grow through adversity. We need not seek it out we can all look back at moments when our lives were in utter chaos, desolation and despair. Growth comes when we respond to adversity by stretching just an edge beyond our talent and experience. .,.,
The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. .,.,
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. .,.,
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs .,.,
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, ...
On the bathing-tub of King Tang the following words were engraved: If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation. .,.,
