Monday, April 19, 2010

No comparisons

Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
~ Advice

The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato

Dwell in possibility.
~ Emily Dickinson

Monday, April 12, 2010

The past, and hope in failure

Make peace with your past so it won't spoil the present.
~ Advice

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
~ Franz Kafka

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats

Monday, April 5, 2010

Arguments, Silver Lining, Good Intentions

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
~ Advice

Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
~ Maurice Setter

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
~ Peter Drucker