Issue 263
- Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Anxiety and distress,
interrupted occasionally by pleasure,
is the normal course of man's existence.
- The life that conquers is the life that
moves with a steady resolution and persistence
toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are
those who have thoroughly learned the immense
importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- We must dare to be happy, and dare to confess it, regarding ourselves always
as the depositories, not as the authors of our own joy.
- Blessed is the man,
who having nothing to say,
abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- There will be times in life when impossibility is felt,
but then there are dreams -- and dreams allow us possibility.
- It is the principle of the pure in heart never to injure others,
even when they themselves have been hatefully injured.
Hating others, even enemies who harmed you unprovoked, assures incessant sorrow.
- You gain strength, courage, and confidence
by every experience in which you
really stop to look fear in the face.
- It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it,
than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of
all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.