“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France
Use your talents
“Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one’s powers and talents.”
– John Gardner
Cause and Effect
“Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect. A man
does not see, that, as he eats, so he thinks: as he
deals, so he is, and so he appears; he does not see
that his son is the son of his thoughts and of his
actions; that fortunes are not exceptions but fruits;
that relation and connection are not somewhere and
sometimes, but everywhere and always; no miscellany,
no exemption, no anomaly, but method, and an
even web; and what comes out, that was put in.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Learn is To Live
“I believed that to learn was to live. To study and study and study was to become good, and possibly great, and, in any event, to do what one (what I) was born to do. Today I can see that this deeply held faith made me what I now am…”
– from the preface of Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books
by Ilana M. Blumberg
To Learn is To Live
“I believed that to learn was to live. To study and study and study was to become good, and possibly great, and, in any event, to do what one (what I) was born to do. Today I can see that this deeply held faith made me what I now am…”
– from the preface of Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman Among Books
by Ilana M. Blumberg
Qualities in Action
“In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to theose who show their good qualities in action.”
– Aristotle
Be Mad
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”
– Jack Kerouac
True Makeovers
“No matter who or what made you what you have become, that doesn’t release you from the responsibility of making yourself over into what you ought to be.”
– Ashley Mantagu
You Are Magnificent
“I believe that you’re great; that there is something magnificent about you. Regardless of what has happened to you in your life,
regardless of how young or how old you think you might be,
the moment you begin to think properly that something that is within you – there’s power within you that’s greater than the world – it will begin to emerge.
It will take over your life.
It will feed you.
It will clothe you.
It will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence if you let it.
Now that is what I know for sure.â€
– Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith, in The Secret Video
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