Our Unfinished World
Our Unfinished World
By Allen. A. Stockdale
God gave us a world unfinished, so that we might share in the joys and satisfactions of creation.
He left the poetry undreamed, in order that men and women might not become bored, but engage in stimulating, exciting, creative activities that keep them thinking, working, experimenting, and experiencing all the joys and durable satisfactions of achievement.
He left oil in Trenton rock.
He left electricity in the clouds.
He left the rivers unbridged - and the mountains untrailed.
He left the forest unfilled and the cities unbuilt.
He left the laboratories unopened.
He left the diamonds uncut.
He gave us the challenge of raw materials not the satisfaction of perfect, finished things.
He left the music unsung and the dramas unplayed.
"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
Conrad Hilton
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do."
Gian-Carlo Menotti
"Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage."
Frederick Pierce
"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."
William Sharp
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