“ When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it. ”
- Peter McWilliams- Copy
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“ I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them — the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings. ”
- Thomas Merton- Copy
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“ It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it. ”
- Thomas a Kempis- Copy
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“ Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon… ”
- Charlotte Bronte- Copy
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