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Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
— Miyamoto Musashi
On Purpose
We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate…
— Kavita Ramdas
On Confidence
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there pl…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
On Purpose
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power rest…
— Mary Oliver
On the Working Life
Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
— Mary Oliver
On Purpose
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
— Mary Oliver
On Anxiety & Quiet Days
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
— Mary Oliver
On Purpose
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
— Mary Oliver
On Starting Over
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
— Mary Oliver
On Purpose
To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
— Mary Oliver
On Focus & Distraction
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
— Simone Weil
On Focus & Distraction
Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.
— José Ortega y Gasset
On Focus & Distraction
I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how…
— Carl W. Buehner
On the Working Life
The value of an idea lies in the using of it.
— Thomas Edison
On the Working Life
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
— Thomas Edison
On Discipline
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
— Thomas Edison
On Discipline
There is no substitute for hard work.
— Thomas Edison
On Discipline
Vision without execution is hallucination.
— Thomas Edison
On the Working Life
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
— Thomas Edison
On the Working Life
Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.
— Natasha Munson
On Money, Plainly
There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one.
— Jack Yelton
On Money, Plainly
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Money, Plainly
If we lose our money, we lose much; if we lose our friends, we lose more; if we lose our faith, we lose all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
On Money, Plainly
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
— Horace
On Money, Plainly
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
— Benjamin Franklin
On Money, Plainly
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
— Edmund Burke
On Money, Plainly
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Discipline
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of…
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Purpose
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the…
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Purpose
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
On Discipline