Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Tag: life
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.
– Dalai Lama
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
– Winston Churchill
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure for fulfillment, for validation, security, or love – you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.
– Eckhart Tolle
We must live, I’m afraid, with the shadows of imperfection.
– Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
When I have ceased to break my wings
Against the faultiness of things,
And learned that compromises wait
Behind each hardly opened gate,
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange — my youth.
– Sara Teasdale, “Wisdom”
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
– Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
People don’t really give a fuck
It is just I, the fool, that cares
Or wants to anyway
People are just terrified
Of interaction intimacy earnestness
Hiding behind masks of courage
Alive but disconnected
The fuse of life is blown
Our souls festering with doubt and aggression
To live or not to live, deliberated Hamlet
To care or not to care, I wonder
Be cruel, whispers Kindness in my ear
©️ Sharon Kaur-Schuelke
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet, “On Children”
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
― Khalil Gibran, The Broken Wings
For everyone is pained by the thought disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. One morning (and it will be soon), when everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of universal deafness and incomprehension will have arrived.
– Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
– T.S.Eliot, an excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
The tradegy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
– Albert Schweitzer
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
– Samuel Johnson
He who cannot rest, cannot work;
He who cannot let go, cannot hold on;
He who cannot find his footing, cannot go forward.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
– T.S.Eliot, an excerpt from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubt. But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
– Francis Bacon
To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind.
To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will.
To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to suceed.
– Bernard Edmonds
Every man is two men; one is awake in the darkness, the other asleep in the light.
— Khalil Gibran, Sand And Foam
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