Conflictisn't negative, it just is.

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Byblending the breath of the sun and the shade, true harmony comes into theworld.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge