“Start Where You Are, Use What You Have, Do What You Can” “Start Where You Are, Use What You Have, Do What You Can” 3.14K
You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. -Deepak Chopra 624
When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective. -Harvey Mackay 670
The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers. – Ruth Benedict 2.42K
Remembering that i’ll be dead soon is the most important tool i’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in my life. -Steve Jobs 2.28K
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It’s basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it’s wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore. 692
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced – in his smallness of mind – that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone – against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts – that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d. 632
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. 728
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind – this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. 656
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization. 764
God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. 2.44K
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I’d probably choose success. 2.28K
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. 649
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her. 689
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing 1.38K
