Things to Think About

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” Sir Edmund Hillary

“We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." Anais Nin

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality." Norman Douglas

“You can deny reality. But, what you can’t deny are the consequences of denying reality. Ayn Rand

“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, who strives valiantly; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause.

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.” Viktor E. Frankl

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain

“When I’m afraid of losing, I never win.” Anonymous

What a wonderful reminder of such a basic truth in life. Many years ago, a friend asked me, “Pepper, are you playing to win, or playing not-to-lose? There’s a big difference you know.”

"I am not an Athenian, I am not a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.” Socrates

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” Warren Buffet

“When you are the anvil, hold you still. But, when you are the hammer, strike your fill.”
George Herbert