Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead.... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
The grain-fields went up the hillsides. Now as we went higher there was a wind blowing the grain.
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Ernest Hemingway
The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.
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Danielle Barone
Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead.... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
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Kathleen Norris
All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.
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Ruth Ross
If we have not achieved our early dreams we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth we need not weep like Alexander the Great that...
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Rosalynn Carter
More Quotes By Kathleen Norris
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening.. .. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
