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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Purpose
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.
— Kahlil Gibran
On Focus & Distraction
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with…
— Thomas Jefferson
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
I cannot live without books.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Focus & Distraction
The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Money, Plainly
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Purpose
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Discipline
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act. Action will delineate and define you.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Discipline
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with…
— Thomas Jefferson
On Confidence
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
On the Working Life
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
— Thomas Jefferson
On Money, Plainly
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Purpose
A lie cannot live.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Discipline
Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it p…
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Confidence
If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Discipline
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On the Working Life
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Focus & Distraction
One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Purpose
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Discipline
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Focus & Distraction
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Purpose
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Discipline
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Purpose
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Focus & Distraction
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teac…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On the Working Life
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Purpose
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
On Purpose
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
— Abraham Lincoln
On Starting Over
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
— Lao Tzu
On Discipline
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.
— Lao Tzu
On Money, Plainly