“Almost anything can be done if one proceeds slowly enough. Often we are discouraged by the enormity of a task or the length of a journey and become impatient with the difficulties we face. We lose faith in ourselves. Patience reminds us that what is in front of us is just this moment, just this step, just this breath.”
Joseph Goldstein
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” Robert G. Ingersoll
“Only that day dawns to which we are awake“ Henry David Thoreau
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” Confucius
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” Alan Watts
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” William Hutchinson Murray (attributed to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms… to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl