Yesterday is not ours to recover

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but
tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
 
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Misery or unhappiness is determined

"I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is
determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition." 

- Martha Washington

Success isn't how far you got

Success isn't how far you got, but the
distance you traveled from where you started.
 
- Proverb 

 

In the absence of clearly-defined goals

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

 

-Robert Heinlein

 

 

Joy is not in things

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

 

-Richard Wagner