Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load.
There is no such things as a negative experience, only opportunites to grow, learn and advance along the road of self mastery.
From struggle comes pain, Even pain can be a wonderful teacher
Stop spending so much time making a living and to spend far more time creating a life
Start thinking about your dreams for a change.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
Charlotte Whitton
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. -
The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. 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 he was meant and made to do.
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.” Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” Alexander Graham Bell quotes
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude." - William JamesOpportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Alva Edison:
Sometimes in our confusion, we see not the world as it is, but the world through eyes blurred by the mind.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others
Jonanthan Walters
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.