No life is worth leading if it is always an easy life
Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty…
Category: Wisdom
Wisdom
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively…”
“Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is...
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which…”
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.” – Meister Eckhart
My business is not to remake myself, but to…
My business is not to remake myself, But to make the absolute best of what God made. – Robert Browning
Get out and do something. Work, sweat, hike, push yourself…
“Get out and do something – work, sweat, hike, push yourself – starve if need be – but dig on and deliver. Then talk if you want to, but the chances are you won’t feel so much like it.”
I AM bigger than anything that can happen to me…
“I AM bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things: sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.”
Genius is talent set on fire by courage…
“Genius is talent set on fire by courage. Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great. Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage and slavery.”
The lives of truest heroism are those in which…
“The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a successful and truly good life.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Knowledge makes a scholar, virtue makes a saint, noble action makes…
“Hungering and striving after knowledge is what makes a scholar; hungering and striving after virtue is what makes a Saint; hungering and striving after noble action is what makes a hero and a man.”
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be lost…
Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.”
In quietness and confidence shall be your strength…
You are distinctly assured that in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength…
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time…
– J.G. Holland
