Archives - December 2013

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

The problem with speeches isn't so much not knowing when to stop, as knowing when not to begin.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

A reward cannot be valued if it is not understood

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fun doing it?

You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

No one ever complains about a speech being too short!

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

I personally believe we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.