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Work is love made visible.

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

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Happiness demands a certain outcome, it is result reliant.

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

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

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

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

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