Quote from Epictetus:
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Simimal Quotes:
Susan Jeffers
From this moment on, every time you feel afraid, remind yourself that it is simply because you are not feeling good enough about yourself.
Epictetus
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Dante
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, reserve their neutrality.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you treat people right they will treat you right --ninety percent of the time.
Byron Katie
I realized that it’s insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality, I lose—but only 100% of the time. How do I know that the wind should blow? It’s blowing!
John Firman
We see the essential divinity underlying the whole of the world's process of growth, and the fundamental rightness of helping that immense work forward as best we can in the time we have… The dichotomy between self and others, between responding to others' needs and taking care of one's own disappears, as one acquires the practical wisdom to see the intrinsic legitimacy of both and the relative priority of each.
Carlos Castaneda
There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.
Jean de La Bruyere
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
James Allen
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
Maya Angelou
All great achievements require time.
