As is a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is—is what matters.
Seneca
Month / March 2010
What we achieve inwardly…
What we achieve inwardly will change outward reality.
Plutarch
J. K. Rowling delivers commencement speech at Harvard University, June 2008.
There is an expiry date…
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction.
J. K. Rowling (at Harvard University, delivering commencement speech. June 2008)
What is man? A…
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
André Malraux
Nothing has a stronger influence…
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
Failure is not a single…
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim Rohn
Often the difference between…
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one’s ideas, to take a calculated risk – and to act.
André Malraux
Good people are good…
Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
Most things break, including…
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
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