Issue 247
- I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things...
I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
- One can have no smaller or
greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
- We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
- Don't let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Genuinely feeling successful is possible when you detach yourself
from the things you desire and allow them to flow to you – and through you.
- Close friends contribute to our personal growth.
They also contribute to our personal pleasure,
making the music sound sweeter, the food taste better,
and the humour richer, because they are there.
- Words are just words and without heart they have no meaning.
- A man who works with his hands is a labourer;
a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman;
but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
- Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if
you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you
are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet
many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
- The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.