Problem Solving

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them but confront them.

Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you;

grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

-- William S. Halsey

Common Sense

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,

and doing things as they ought to be done.

-- Calvin Stowe

How We Live

We live in the present,

We dream of the future,

and we learn eternal truths from the past.

-- Mme. Chiang Kai-shek

A Kind Deed

Do a deed of simple kindness;

Though its end you may not see,

It may reach, like widening ripples,

Down a long eternity

-- Joseph Norris

They Just Need Foundations

If you have built castles in the air,

your work need not be lost;

that is where they should be.

Now put foundations under them.

-- Henry David Thoreau

How To Be Better

The one who attempts to be better than himself

is likely to have more success than

the one who attempts to be better than someone else.

Happiness Comes From Within

Happy is the man who can keep a quiet heart,

in the chaos and tumult of this modern world.

-- Patience Strong

Happiness is inward and not outward;

and so it does not depend on what we have,

but on what we are.

-- Henry van Dyke

A Man's Worth

It is not what he has,

nor even what he does,

which directly expresses the worth of a man,

but what he is.

-- Henri Frédéric Amiel

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