Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -Thomas Szasz

The world is a great book, of which they who stir not from home read only a page. -St Augustine

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New post: Are You A Sleeping Giant? http://ping.fm/8xo7I

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going. -David Starr Jordan

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." -Winston Churchill

It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. -Samuel Butler

Preservation of Self-Approval

You, yourself, have got to see that there is no just interpretation of life except in terms of life's best things. No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purposes, for maintenance of integrity, for the preservation of self-approval.
-Minot Simons

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome. -Samuel Johnson

New post: The Moment One Commits Oneself http://ping.fm/fJeOZ

3 things in human life are important. The 1st is to be kind. The 2nd is to be kind. & the 3rd is to be kind. -Henry James

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -Publilius Syrus #quotes

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A Quote About Action

"Action and feeling go together and by regulating the action which is under the more direct control of the will, we can regulate the feeling, which is not."
-William James

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"In every triumph there's a lot of try." -Frank Tyger #quotes

Scoffing At Standards: Are You Guilty Of This?

We like to think it is enough if we keep our own lives straight. Quite plainly it is not. If we talk cynically or encourage a lowering of standards, even though we still control our own actions, we become responsible for the failure of those who, weakened by our influence, fail to stand upright. -George P.T. Sargent

"The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action." -Philip Sydney (read that every day for 100 days)

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Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. -Samuel Johnson