What you do is infinitely more important that how you do it. Efficiency is still important, but is useless unless applied to the right things.

Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.

True freedom is much more than having enough income and time to do what you want. 

By working only when you are most effective, life is both more productive and more enjoyable. It’s the perfect example of having your cake and eating it, too.

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.” 

“The Soul selects her own Society.” 

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.” 

“To shut your eyes is to travel.” 

“open me carefully” 

“To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.” 

“What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.” 

“There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.” 

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.” 

“Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.” 

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

“Tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember a story.”

“You can do more good by being good than any other way.”

“If you’re not making mistakes then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

“Never lie, never cheat, never steal.”

I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness