Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Inspiring Reality Quotes to Help You Embrace Life - page 123
Friend, there's no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
Fulton J. Sheen
By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.
Wes Nisker
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
John Charles Polanyi
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving
...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.
James Frey
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.
Louis de Bernieres
Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.
Janwillem van de Wetering
Nothing is more abstract than reality.
Giorgio Morandi
The truth is I have from the very beginning listened to my instincts. All of my best decisions in life have come because I was attuned to what really felt like the next right move for me.
The pageant of life is divided into ying and yang. They're two circles. You can follow either circle and manage to develop enough speed to move beyond this world to other worlds, dimensional realities.
Abba Dorotheos said: No matter what kind of sorrow comes to you, don't blame anyone but yourself, and say, "This has happened because of my sins.
Ignatius Bryanchaninov
Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destination.
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Walter Reuther
