“The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it - even if only as a hobby - is the key to happiness.” IfsWayGivingUseDreamHappinessPurposeGoalNaturalAchieveTalentKeysHighestDrawingCommitSuitsPurpose Of LifeAmerican DreamHobbiesKey To HappinessSuits YouNatural TalentYour Purpose In LifeGifts And Talents Book:What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement Source: What Makes the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement
“For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is a way of thanking the tool for what it provides in life. It helps put bread on the table and a roof overhead. It gives us work and pleasure, exercises our minds, brings us information, connects us with other people. It is a partner helping us achieve our goals. Nodding also thanks the unseen hands and minds who helped create our machine.” PeopleWayGivingMindMeanHelpingHandsGoalPleasureAchieveInformationExerciseGratitudeComputerToolsMachinesTablesPartnersBreadThanksRoofUnseenOverheadNodding Author:Philip Toshio Sudo
“The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self.” PeopleGivingSelfUseOpportunityAchieveSelf RealizationRealizationEaseConfrontationUnprecedentedAffluentClamorUntalentedAlibis Author:Eric Hoffer
“Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.” GivingMindRealSpiritualDesireWiseProgressAchieveDutyGiving UpTemptationDeceptionTranquilityRise AboveSpiritual Progress Author:Sivananda
“Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.” IfsGivingPrinciplesAchieveDespairGiving UpThee Author:Marcus Aurelius