“You attract poverty when you lack value for time”

“Don’t overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.”

“[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—What I’d seen on a walk today.Bodies rushing bodies boltingTime for life a disregarding.Money to make and to grow oldWhat about the hands to hold?Deadlines, projects, people to meetWhat about our own two feet.Sullen faces like slates of grey…What I’d see most anyday.”

“The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.”

“There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.”

“Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of set standards…!”

“Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.”

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.”

“Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”

“Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don’t have to do it, but it’s here if you choose to come back to it.”

“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

“The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”

“Hide not your talents, they for use were made,What’s a sundial in the shade?”

“Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.”