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Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul.

Work is love made visible.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Pride in one's work is aroused as soon as work is functionalized. The moment a man has something to do that he likes to do, and can do well, he takes pride in it.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

If we do not watch, we lose our opportunities; if we do not make haste, we are left behind; our best hours escape us, the worst are to come.

Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.

Is pleasure, then, the object of your being, and not action, and the exercise of your powers?

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.

Make trial how the life of a good man succeeds with you, the life of one who is content with the lot appointed him by Providence

Others, who love the art that they have made their own, exhaust themselves with labouring at it unwashed and unfed.

An actor, in order to earn approval, is not bound to perform the play from beginning to end; let him only satisfy the audience in whatever act he appears.

With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.

I was thrown out of work, and now that I had got into the habit of writing I did not know what to make of my spare time.

An honest man’s pillow is his peace of mind, and when you lay down on the pillow at night, no matter who’s in our bed we all sleep alone.

If we stay in process, within ourselves, in the joy of the doing, we will never choke at the finish line.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

If happiness is what you’re after, then you are going to be let down frequently and be unhappy much of your time.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

It’s just as important where we are not as it is where we are.