In framing an ideal we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities.

Recommended reading: The Basic Works of Aristotle.

You are not responsible for your first thought. But you are responsible for your second thought and your first action. That is where your power lies.

Recommended reading: Neurotherapy and Neurofeedback: Brain-Based Treatment for Psychological and Behavioral Problems.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.

Recommended reading: Anne of Green Gables.

At the still point, there the dance is.

Recommended reading: Four Quartets.

We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.

Recommended reading: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred.

Recommended reading: The Honda Myth: The Genius and His Wake.

This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

Recommended reading: The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant – there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing – and keeping the unknown always beyond you.

Recommended reading: Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life.

Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.

Recommended reading: The Story of My Life. 

Do not go gentle into that good night; Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Recommended reading: The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas.