COMPASSION

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life
with reverence in order to give it true value.
— Albert Schweitzer

4/18/2013

Quotes

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
-- Mark Twain
 “Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.”
- Author Unknown

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. 
- Arnold ToynbeeEnglish historian & historical philosopher (1889 - 1975)   
 
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.  
- Arnold Toynbee

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. 
Saint Jerome,  church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)
 
A goal without a plan is just a wish. 
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)

 
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
- Denis Watley
 

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.  
-- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

 

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.  
- Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
 
 
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.  
- Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
 

To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.  
- Michael Hanson
 

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.  
-- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
 

"The greater danger for most of us is notthat our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
- Michelangelo 
 
 
Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
-  Stephen Hawking
 
 
 
 
 
 

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