Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
– Don Marquis    Â
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Fear
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
Sensibilities
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
– Christian Nestell Bovee
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.
– Christian Nestell Bovee    Â
Determination
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
– Christian Nestell Bovee