"Know what you can change in life, know what you can't, and have the wisdom to know the difference in between the two." (AA)

"Chance favors the prepared mind" -
Louis Pasteur

We cannot direct the wind...But we can adjust the sails. anon

Failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try. anon

There are four steps to accomplishment: Plan Purposefully. Prepare Prayerfully. Proceed Positively. Pursue Persitently.

The harder you work the luckier you get. Gary Player - Golfer

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
-- Thomas A. Edison

Destiny

Our destiny changes with our thoughts; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.- Orison Swett Marden

'What you are you are, and destiny is destiny. Make a dog an emperor and still he will lick the grinding wheel.'

CHANGE

FRAGMENT 12
(quoted in Arius Didymus, )
On those who step in the same river, different and different waters flow . . . 4

FRAGMENT 80
(quoted in Origen, Against Celsus )
It is necessary to understand that war is common, strife is customary,
and all things happen because of strife and necessity.

 

4. This is the most famous passage in Heraclitus. This curious riddle implies two things: 1.) that the world is in constant change (different and different waters flow); 2.) the world is one unified whole (the river) which is constant yet contains this perpetual change.

©1996, Richard Hooker

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