What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is an impossible task. You can certainly experience moments in absence of fear, however accept that fear will be with you whenever you are in the process of living creatively. The challenge is to go ahead regardless, simply notice the feeling and manage being courageous.
Studies indicate that the one quality all successful people have is persistence. They're willing to spend more time accomplishing a task and to persevere in the face of many difficult odds. There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it.
Cultivate will power, that massive creative force that God the creator built into you. Do not let it remain flabby but strengthen it by use and exercise.
If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.
When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.
You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.
Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.
Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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.
We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth