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“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” —Aldous Huxley
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.
—T.S. Eliot
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” —Oprah
Why then should witless man so much misweene
That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” —Oprah
He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.
---Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston S. Churchill
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S. Eliot
He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts,
As raging flames who striveth to supresse.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S. Eliot
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” —Arthur Ashe
I will show you fear in a handful of dust
Either you run the day or the day runs you.” —Jim Rohn
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washèd it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Edmund Spenser, Amoretti And Epithalamion
Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” —Ashton Kutcher
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
T.S. Eliot.
Faith is risking it all on something unseen. Most people say, “I’ll believe it when I see it,” but the truth of the matter is that you’ll see it when you believe it. —David DeNotaris
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” —Thomas A. Edison
Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” —Elon Musk
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Edmund Spenser
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” —Charles R. Swindoll
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” —Lao Tzu
Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.
---William Shakespeare, Macbeth
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” —H. G. Wells
You are the music while the music lasts.
T.S. Eliot
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” —Simone de Beauvoir
Aye me, how many perils do enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall?
Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
---Edmund Spenser
The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.” —Tony Robbins
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T.S. Eliot
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” —Steve Jobs
Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.
Christopher Marlowe
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” —Unknokwn
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
- The Hollow Men
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
one louing howre
For many yeares of sorrow can dispence:
A dram of sweet is worth a pound of sowre
---Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
T.S. Eliot
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.
---William Shakespeare, Hamlet
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar
Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
The youthfull knight could not for ought be staide,
But forth vnto the darksome hole he went,
And looked in:his glistring armor made
A litle glooming light, much like a shade,
Edmund Spencer, The Faerie Queene
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T.S. Eliot
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” —Stephen Covey
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” —Henry Ford
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T.S. Eliot
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
O but," quoth she, "great griefe will not be tould,
And can more easily be thought, then said."
"Right so"; quoth he, "but he, that never would,
Could never: will to might gives greatest aid."
"But grief," quoth she, "does great grow displaid,
If then it find not helpe, and breedes despaire."
"Despaire breedes not," quoth he, "where faith is staid."
"No faith so fast," quoth she, "but flesh does paire."
"Flesh may empaire," quoth he, "but reason can repaire.
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well