Go in any direction. . seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
If you don't change what you are doing today, all of your tomorrows will look like yesterday.
Language designed to impress builds a gulf. Language to express builds a bridge.
Work harder on yourself than you do on your job. If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune. . . Income seldom exceeds personal development.
And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.
If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.
This was the feeling that Ms. Hempel couldn't shake: a conviction that she spent her days among people at the age when they are most purely themselves. How could she not be depleted when she came home, having been exposed for hours, without protection, to all those thrumming radiant selves? Here they were, just old enough to have discovered their souls, but not yet dulled by the ordinary act of survival, not yet practiced in dissembling.
All men are created equal and all women are created equal as well, but [equality] seems much clearer when it comes to race issues. In the realms of manwoman, manman, womanwoman love, it seems all up for grabs now. We are exploring so much, but I think we gotta go for the fight for all equality first.