Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

brass into pure gold...

Go ahead, light your candles and burn your incense and ring your bells and call out to God, but watch out, because God will come and he will put you on his anvil and fire up his forge and beat you until He turns brass into pure gold.

Sant Keshavadas

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

to be whittled and sandpapered...

We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what's left is who we truly are.

Arianna Huffington
from On Becoming Fearless: In Love, Work and Life

Monday, March 30, 2009

perseverance...

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

Thursday, February 12, 2009

courage...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

be yourself...

The greatest accomplishment is to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monday, September 22, 2008

courage...

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin