A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.
Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.
"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it. . . is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Certainly don't go to that being who is bent on your destruction of your happiness. Face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence. ' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.
I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.