Nobody has things just as he would like them. The thing to do is to make a success with what material I have. It is a sheer waste of time and soul-power to imagine what I would do if things were diffe...
Good is not good, where better is expected.
Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he was sinking into too many expectations, literally getting in over his head.W...
My heart broke not only for the daughter who already was forced to become her mother's alarmingly narrow ideal, but also for the middle daughter who knew that her in mother's mind she had already fail...
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.
Sometimes it happens that the most insane thought, the most impossible conception, will become so fixed in one's head that at length one believes the thought or the conception to be reality. Moreover,...
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
We cannot all be masters.
Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Som...
Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can do.
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