“Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.”
—Jean De La Fontaine (1621-1695), poet, writer
Capabilities
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”
— Thomas Edison
Imagination is Powerful
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
– Napoleon Hill
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
Leisure Activities
“It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.”
– Agnes Repplier
Life is an opportunity
“We become happier, much happier, when we realize life is an opportunity rather than an obligation.”
– Mary Augustine
Go for it!
“When you get the chance, go for it. You can’t accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself.”
– Oprah Winfrey, p.230 O Magazine, July 2007
The future belongs to creative people
“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind – creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers and meaning makers. These people…will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.”
– Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind
quoted p. 140 in Why We Want You to be Rich
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