“Because that’s the thing about the future. You can’t get there by imagining. You can only get there one step at a time, and the hardest part is taking that first step.”
― The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
― The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
“Having hope,” writes Daniel Goleman in his study of emotional intelligence, “means that one will not give in to overwhelming anxiety, a defeatist attitude, or depression in the face of difficult challenges or setbacks.” Hope is “more than the sunny view that everything will turn out all right”; it is “believing you have the will and the way to accomplish your goals.”
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
― Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
“That’s the power of atomic habits. Tiny changes. Remarkable results.”
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
― Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
“Amongst the best known of these plants are peaches, peonies, chrysanthemums, camellias, gardenias, azaleas, forsythias, wisteria, and crabapples, to mention but a few. And the development of the modern repeat-flowering roses would not have occurred had the so-called monthly roses not been brought to Europe from Chinese gardens.”
― Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
― Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories
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