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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William ShakespeareHome is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert FrostIf we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother TeresaIt ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain |
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We only think when we are confronted with a problem. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. To me, faith means not worrying. Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. Confidence ... is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life. Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness. Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. We only think when we are confronted with a problem. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. |
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