“One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.” FeelingsEffortTrainOneself Author:Alexis Carrel
“Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.” PeopleHelpingHurtEffortGreater Author:Alexis Carrel
“Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.” MomentsJoySufferingValuesFeltPleasureEffortSacrificeDisciplineMarkOneselfProfitTriumphPeculiarAmusementDeprivedIndefinable Author:Alexis Carrel
“Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.” MenGivingMindHumansRealBodySpiritForcePrayerEffortAchieveStrengthDiseaseTherapyMelancholyGravityPhysiciansAssemblyHarmoniousSereneFrailReedsUnshakable Author:Alexis Carrel
“In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.” StillsJoyFallEffortSorrowSucceedCapacityProsperityAcquireSicknessReverseCapacity To LoveWill To Succeed Author:Alexis Carrel
