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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
— Jorge Luis Borges
On Starting Over
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
— Jorge Luis Borges
On Focus & Distraction
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
— Toni Morrison
On Purpose
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough.
— Toni Morrison
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
— Toni Morrison
On Starting Over
You are your best thing.
— Toni Morrison
On Confidence
If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
— Toni Morrison
On the Working Life
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
— Neil Gaiman
On Focus & Distraction
I dwell in possibility.
— Emily Dickinson
On Confidence
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
— Charles Dederich
On Starting Over
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The realist adjusts the sails.
— William Arthur Ward
On Discipline
Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
On the Working Life
Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
On Discipline
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
On Purpose
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.
— Helen Keller
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
— Albert Einstein
On Focus & Distraction
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
— Albert Einstein
On Discipline
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing tha…
— Albert Einstein
On Confidence
If you are going through hell, keep going.
— Winston Churchill
On Starting Over
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Winston Churchill
On Discipline
I would prefer not to.
— Herman Melville
On Confidence
It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the capta…
— William Ernest Henley
On Confidence
To do nothing is in every man's power.
— Samuel Johnson
On Discipline
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On the Working Life
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
On Focus & Distraction
To live without hope is to cease to live.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
All great things come from suffering.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Starting Over
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
On Confidence
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
— Stephen King
On Focus & Distraction
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
— Theophrastus
On Focus & Distraction