“Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.” LongHas BeensEnergyPathFateTasksHeavyTreading Author:Alfred de Vigny
“Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.” KnowsTryingArtPathDegreesTasksClaimsExcellenceCriticsChosenSteers Author:Norbert Lynton
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time and again, even daily, by sending people across our path with their demands and requests. We can, then, pass them by, preoccupied with our important daily tasks, just as the priest-perhaps reading the Bible-passed by the man who had fallen among robbers. When we do that, we pass by the visible sign of the Cross raised in our lives to show us that God’s way, and not our own, is what counts.” PeopleMenWayImportantShowsReadingPathOur LivesPlansHe ManReadyDemandCrossesTasksRaisedFallenVisiblePriestsRequestInterruptedRobbersReading The BibleDaily Tasks Book:Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible Source: Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible
“Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: Whose high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; And in himself posses his own desire” MenShouldRealLightHappinessSpiritDesireWishNaturalPathPlansArmsTasksInstinctEvery ManReal LifeWarriorGenerousEndeavorInwardDiligentPosseNatural InstinctBoyishGenerous Spirit Author:William Wordsworth
“Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.” LongWholeHumanityExistencePathBuildingPlanetsMaterialsKingsPromiseTasksInstitutionsEnvironmentalIllLuxuryCorporationsParadiseEmpiresCompassionateSustainabilityPartnershipNurtureIgnoredFiniteLimitlessImperativesCivil SocietySufficiencyMismatch Author:David Korten
“Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden.” LongNightHeavenEasyDarkHellPathDoorsAirSweetTasksInvestingBurdenAll NightDescentHades Author:Virgil
“Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.” MenWorldHeartMayChildrenStillsPlayRememberJoyEvilHousePathFeetLaughterTasksStormAbandonNow And ThenRefugeCheerfulRestlessOld DaysTreadingMany PathsStalwart Book:The Desiderata of Happiness Source: The Desiderata of Happiness
“Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.” MenHeavenReligiousAnimalPathBrotherHolyTasksGlobesGraveyard Author:Mark Twain
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansImportantDifferentPhilosophyShowsFeelingsEasyHurtHuman BeingsPathTeachingFiguresStudentsYears AgoTasksHonestlyI've LearnedClassroomImprovingScopeEasy Tasks Author:Tod Goldberg
“The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very shocked at times that he had been chosen for this path, but he also understood that he was chosen for this path. He had several moments of acute doubt as to if he was up for the task - when people were injured in the protests he took it very personally, let alone when they were killed.” PeopleIfsMomentsFeltLeaderPathDoubtKingsUnderstoodTasksSurpriseChosenProtestDrsShockedLutherInjuredReluctantDr Martin Luther King Author:David Oyelowo