Lin-Chi

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

And you know, two heads are better than one.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

If you don’t have a plan, days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months, months turn into years, and before you know it you’re looking back saying, I should’ve had a plan.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life’s blood. But everyone has something to give.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.

I’m not a survivor. Survivor comes from saying you barely made it and you’re a victim. I am triumphant. I’m not a survivor.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.