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To err is human; to forgive, divine.
— Alexander Pope
On Starting Over
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to…
— Alexander Pope
On Starting Over
Whatever the human soul holds dear, that it will protect.
— Henrik Ibsen
On the Working Life
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
— Pamela Vaull Starr
On Confidence
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Confidence
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not b…
— Kahlil Gibran
On the Working Life
A heart in love with beauty never grows old.
— Kahlil Gibran
On the Working Life
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Working Life
I have given a name to my pain, and call it dog.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
— Euripides
On Focus & Distraction
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
— Euripides
On the Working Life
I love a broad margin to my life.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Focus & Distraction
You are remembered for the rules you break.
— Douglas MacArthur
On Confidence
I want to put a ding in the universe.
— Steve Jobs
On Purpose
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
— Steve Jobs
On Confidence
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
— Carl Sagan
On Confidence
I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.
— Emily Dickinson
On Purpose
That love is all there is, is all we know of love.
— Emily Dickinson
On the Working Life
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson
On Purpose
Forever is composed of nows.
— Emily Dickinson
On Focus & Distraction
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
— Emily Dickinson
On Focus & Distraction
You can't wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club.
— Jack London
On Discipline
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.
— Jack London
On Discipline
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come.
— Anne Lamott
On Confidence
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories.
— Anne Lamott
On Confidence
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it foun…
— Anne Lamott
On Starting Over
Where you've nothing else, construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
— Cormac McCarthy
On Discipline
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
— Cormac McCarthy
On Starting Over
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
— Cormac McCarthy
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
— Saul Bellow
On Focus & Distraction