Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a
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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.