Motivational Status in English

Self-complacency is fatal to progress.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness

Information is cheap, understanding rare, wisdom priceless.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Skill to do comes of doing.

You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.