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Even in prison, even in Siberia, I was a free man in my heart.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Confidence
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
— Leo Tolstoy
On the Working Life
Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
— Leo Tolstoy
On Purpose
Let us forgive each other — only then will we live in peace.
— Leo Tolstoy
On Starting Over
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
— Leo Tolstoy
On Purpose
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
— Leo Tolstoy
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
— Lao Tzu
On Focus & Distraction
The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.
— Unknown
On Discipline
Ships in harbor are safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
— John A. Shedd
On Confidence
You learn more from failure than from success. Don't let it stop you. Failure builds character.
— Unknown
On Starting Over
A spoonful of honey catches more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
— Francis de Sales
On the Working Life
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
— Francis de Sales
On Purpose
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
— Francis de Sales
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,…
— Francis de Sales
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Money, Plainly
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Purpose
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
On the Working Life
What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Confidence
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Focus & Distraction
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Purpose
March to the beat of your own drum.
— Henry David Thoreau
On Confidence
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Purpose
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Confidence
Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Purpose
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Discipline
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Confidence
Work is love made visible.
— Kahlil Gibran
On the Working Life
Let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Money, Plainly
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Anxiety & Quiet Days