6 Quotes by John Joseph Powell

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

We must be trying to learn who we really are rather than trying to tell ourselves who we should be.

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

أني أخشى أن أقول لك من أنا, لأني اذا فعلت ذلك, قد لا يروق لك من أنا , وذلك جلُّ ما أملك