May God ... let me strive for attainable things.
Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.
We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
I hope to work support my children and die quietly without pain.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.
To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.
It isn't important to come out on top what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.
Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments then the wind blows your footprints away.
If we are to survive on this planet there must be compromises.
Real life is to most men ... a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
Good is not good, where better is expected.
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...
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