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“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“The first principle of success is desire–knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air;
of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.”

“One of the greatest moments in anybody’s developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.”

“Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.”

“Just a few centuries ago, the smartest humans alive were dead wrong about damn near everything. They were wrong about gods. Wrong about astronomy. Wrong about disease. Wrong about heredity. Wrong about physics. Wrong about racism, sexism, nationalism, governance, and many other moral issues. Wrong about geology. Wrong about cosmology. Wrong about chemistry. Wrong about evolution. Wrong about nearly every subject imaginable.”

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”

“If you want to reach a goal, you must “see the reaching” in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.”

“You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world’s happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.”

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”

“Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.”