Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.
We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.
Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing.
Once a man has tasted creative action, then thereafter, no matter how safely he schools himself in patience, he is restive, acutely dissatisfied with anything else. He becomes as a lover to whom abstinence is intolerable.
One may receive the information but miss the teaching.
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Perhaps . . . our lot on the earth is to seek and to search. Now and again we find just enough to enable us to carry on. I now doubt that any of us will completely find and be found in this life.
A visit to Georgia last fall was the starting point of almost everything of worth that I have done. I saw lhe rich dusk beauty. . . . And a deep part of my nature, a part that I had repressed, sprang suddenly to life and responded to them.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories