Issue 296
- Working hours are never long enough.
Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are
grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
- The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
smile at someone and receive a smile in return,
are to me continual spiritual exercises.
- Some men have thousands of reasons why
they cannot do what they want to,
when all they need is one reason why they can.
- High station in life is earned by the gallantry with
which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
- Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul -
and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
- If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know
what's most important and then give it all you've got.
- The life that is unexamined is not worth living.
- The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
- A challenge gives you the opportunity
to flex your spiritual muscles.
- Each of us is given a pocketful of time to spend however we may. We use
what we will. We waste what we will. But we can never get back a day.