Ambitious Goal

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

- Arnold Toynbee

How often we wish for another chance
To make a fresh beginning.
A change to blot out our mistakes.
And start a new inning.

To live a little better
And to always be forgiving,
To add a little sunshine
To the world in which we're living.

So never give up in despair
And think that you are through,
For there's always a tomorrow
And a chance to start a new.

Strength, Courage and Confidence

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it… You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Greatest Help

I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with
decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know
where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe
and are acting from.

- William Faulkner

All is a miracle.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air,
but to walk on earth.

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize:
A blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child
Our own two eyes.

All is a miracle.


~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Everything Unfolds Accordingly

There is nothing that happens by chance in our universe. Everything unfolds according to higher laws - everything is regulated by divine order.

- Peace Pilgrim