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A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results. He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure. His every thought is allied with power, and all difficulties are bravely met and wisely overcome. His purposes are seasonably planted, and they bloom and bring forth fruit which does not fall prematurely to the ground. The body is the servant of the mind . . . . at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty. James Allen |
| Pleasure in doing virtuous acts is a sign that the virtuous disposition
has been acquired: a variety of considerations show the essential connection of moral
virtue with pleasure and pain Therefore for this reason also the whole concern both of virtue and of political science is with pleasures and pains; for the man who uses these well will be good, he who uses them badly bad. Aristotle |
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The Master He fumbles at your spirit Prepares your brittle substance Your breath has time to straighten, Emily Dickinson |
| With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame - and something precious. It is not the strength but the duration of exalted sensations which makes exalted men. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzche |
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