To accomplish the best you can, first aim for the best you can't.
Moffat MachinguraTags: goals success vision accomplishment dream goals-in-life aim focus plan
If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the package of your accomplishments in full versions.
Israelmore AyivorTags: purpose vision work dreams dreaming accomplishment food-for-thought industry working pay employment hard-work full complete job you-can-do-it industrious version do-it package work-hard dream-big big-dreams israelmore-ayivor hard-working you-can do-a-work employ fully pay-the-price work-on-your-dream
Anesthesia was discovered. Do you know what it means to relieve man of his pain and suffering? Anesthesia is the most humane of all of man's accomplishments, and what a merciful accomplishment it was. For this great discovery we are indebted to Dr. W. T. G. Morton.
Do you know that the religionists opposed the use of anesthesia on the ground that God sent pain as a punishment for sin, and it was considered the greatest of sacrileges to use it—just think of it, a sin to relieve man of his misery! What a monstrous perversion! This one instance alone should convince you of the difference in believing in God or not.
No believer in God would have spent his energies to discover anesthesia. He would have been in mortal fear of the wrath of his God for interfering with his 'divine plan,' of making man suffer for having eaten of the fruit of the 'Tree of Knowledge.'
The very crux of the matter is in this one instance. Man seeks to relieve his fellow man from the suffering of disease and the pangs of mental agony. The believers in God are content that man's suffering is ordained, and therefore he accepts life and its trials and tribulations as a penance for living.
The fear of the wrath of God has been a stumbling block to progress.
Tags: fear accomplishment suffering mercy misery disease wrath agony anesthesia penance religionists dr-morton
To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had better take to some other profession as quickly as may be, they are only making a sure thing of disappointment, only crowding the narrow gates of fortune and fame. Yet there are others to whom success, though easily within their reach, does not seem a thing to be grasped at. Of two such, the pathetic story may be read, in the Memoir of A Scotch Probationer, Mr. Thomas Davidson, who died young, an unplaced Minister of the United Presbyterian Church, in 1869. He died young, unaccepted by the world, unheard of, uncomplaining, soon after writing his latest song on the first grey hairs of the lady whom he loved. And she, Miss Alison Dunlop, died also, a year ago, leaving a little work newly published, Anent Old Edinburgh, in which is briefly told the story of her life. There can hardly be a true tale more brave and honourable, for those two were eminently qualified to shine, with a clear and modest radiance, in letters. Both had a touch of poetry, Mr. Davidson left a few genuine poems, both had humour, knowledge, patience, industry, and literary conscientiousness. No success came to them, they did not even seek it, though it was easily within the reach of their powers. Yet none can call them failures, leaving, as they did, the fragrance of honourable and uncomplaining lives, and such brief records of these as to delight, and console and encourage us all. They bequeath to us the spectacle of a real triumph far beyond the petty gains of money or of applause, the spectacle of lives made happy by literature, unvexed by notoriety, unfretted by envy. What we call success could never have yielded them so much, for the ways of authorship are dusty and stony, and the stones are only too handy for throwing at the few that, deservedly or undeservedly, make a name, and therewith about one-tenth of the wealth which is ungrudged to physicians, or barristers, or stock-brokers, or dentists, or electricians. If literature and occupation with letters were not its own reward, truly they who seem to succeed might envy those who fail. It is not wealth that they win, as fortunate men in other professions count wealth; it is not rank nor fashion that come to their call nor come to call on them. Their success is to be let dwell with their own fancies, or with the imaginations of others far greater than themselves; their success is this living in fantasy, a little remote from the hubbub and the contests of the world. At the best they will be vexed by curious eyes and idle tongues, at the best they will die not rich in this world’s goods, yet not unconsoled by the friendships which they win among men and women whose faces they will never see. They may well be content, and thrice content, with their lot, yet it is not a lot which should provoke envy, nor be coveted by ambition.
Andrew LangTags: writing philosophy accomplishment aspiration the-essence-of-life
«I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»
«You have lived well,» the Alien said.
Tags: life choice accomplishment volition
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
Alan SheinwaldTags: individuality wisdom imagination inspirational truth intelligence perception strength honesty experience reality knowledge learning inspiration freedom philosophy belief integrity confidence carpe-diem planning change joy classic be-yourself accomplishment human-nature infinity light mistakes strategy smiling action actions best alan-sheinwald
Rich or poor it’s nice to have money
Alan SheinwaldTags: life truth perception goals progress happiness equality knowledge reason wealth obvious philosophy integrity carpe-diem eternity fate plans change economics accomplishment different strategy hypocrisy good independent-thought attributed importance alan-sheinwald
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
Alan SheinwaldTags: fear wisdom life inspirational art perception pessimism strength experience reality freedom peace belief integrity confidence romance sadness fate planning plans faith be-yourself fitting-in those-who-matter accomplishment relationships human-nature light live funny mistakes strategy smile smiling action actions attributed best alan-sheinwald magination
Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than sufficient to accomplish even the greatest of their dreams.
Stella PaytonTags: wisdom dreaming accomplishment dream attitude business ability accomplishments resources sufficient stella-payton allocation endow
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