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Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.

Everything was strange and silent and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at all.

There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.

What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.

The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.

We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.

Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.

The men you see spending most of their time looking for higher and more lucrative positions are, nine times out of ten, men who have made worthless failures in other places.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.

So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.

For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.

Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.

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

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.