Attitudes and A Path With Heart

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
John Foster Dulless

Ah, great it is to believe the dream,
As we stand in youth by the starry stream
But a greater thing is to fight life through
and say at the end “The dream is true!”
Edwin Markham

Heaven is not reached in a single bound;
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit round by round.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses.

Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another’s failings; but they also come to know what is worthy and respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves.

If at the end one can say, “This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task,” then that life has been lived well, and there are no regrets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whther by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Robert Louis Stevenson