The turning point ...

"The turning point in the lives of those who succeed

usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through

which they are introduced to their “other selves.”

Napoleon Hill

Carl Sagan

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“Somewhere, something incredible

is waiting to be known.”

Carl Sagan

“The Dragonfly & the Ant”

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In the summer’s gaily singing,

Of the future isn’t thinking,

But the winter’s nearby.

Field was green, it’s now reddish,

Happy days already vanished,

And it happens no more,

That a leaf gives roof and store.

All has gone. In cold winters

Want and hunger wait afore.

Dragon-fly sings no more:

Who would like to sing yet more,

If the hungry belly hinders.

She is crawling in dismay

To the ant’s not far away:

“Dear crony, don’t leave me,

I’ll be strong, you may believe me!

But to manage winter storms

Give me food, a bit of warmth.”

“Oh, my dear, it’s very queer!

Did you work in summer here?”

So Ant his answer forms.

“But in summer I was busy:

In the pleasant grass we’d had

Many plays and songs ahead;

Very often I was dizzy.”

“Ah, you mean:” – “I made a hit:

All the summer I was singing:”

“You were singing. Well done dealing!

Now dance a little bit!”

Ivan Krylov

Translated by Sergey Kozlov

A good decision...

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"A good decision is based on knowledge

and not on numbers."

Plato

About failure...

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"Edison failed 10,000 times before perfecting

the incandescent electric light bulb. Don’t

worry if you fail once."

Napoleon Hill

Your progress in life...

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"Your progress in life begins in your

own mind and ends in the same space."

Napoleon Hill

Human family

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"I note the obvious differences

in the human family.

Some of us are serious,

some thrive on comedy.

Some declare their lives are lived

as true profundity,

and others claim they really live

the real reality.

The variety of our skin tones

can confuse, bemuse, delight,

brown and pink and beige and purple,

tan and blue and white.

I've sailed upon the seven seas

and stopped in every land,

I've seen the wonders of the world

not yet one common man.

I know ten thousand women

called Jane and Mary Jane,

but I've not seen any two

who really were the same.

Mirror twins are different

although their features jibe,

and lovers think quite different

thoughts while lying side by side.

We love and lose in China,

we weep on England's moors,

and laugh and moan in Guinea,

and thrive on Spanish shores.

We seek success in Finland,

are born and die in Maine.

In minor ways we differ,

in major we're the same.

I note the obvious differences

between each sort and type,

but we are more alike, my friends,

than we are unalike.

We are more alike, my friends,

than we are unalike.

We are more alike, my friends,

than we are unalike."

Maya Angelou

There is nothing certain....

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"There is nothing certain, nothing except

the nothingness of everything that is

comprehensible to me, and the greatness

of something incomprehensible but all

important!”

Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes...

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“Sometimes you have to pick the

gun up to put the Gun down.”

Malcom X