One of the greatest obstacles to mental progress is a lack of specific goals which are established in such a manner that they become a regular stairway of effort where one easy activity leads to another easy effort which, when continued over a period of time, allows the ascension of the mind from the simple to the complex and from the physical through the mental to the spiritual. –Kabalarian Teachings

Make life a constructive effort. –Alfred J. Parker

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The wind does not talk with more gentleness to giant oaks than to the smallest leaf of grass. –Kahlil Gibran