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The best relationships are win-win. Why don't more people go into relationships with that attitude?
If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.
Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.
Everything begins with a decision. Then, we have to manage that decision for the rest of your life.
Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.
If I expect great things from my people, they'll go to great lengths to keep from disappointing me.
Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.
Connecting is the key to Influence. Influence is the key to Leading. Leading is the key to Success!
If we are willing, the experience of grief can deepen and widen our ability to participate in life.
Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.
Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.
Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.
Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.
Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.
In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.
I said nothing—I hadn’t known Marya, and anyway, “listening quietly” was my general social strategy
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.
The Romans knew it: quod me alit me extinguit, they said: That which nourishes me, extinguishes me.
You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.
The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.
So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.
Instead of command and control, managing the creative process is about facilitating and permitting.
It is difficult to be sure of our friends, but it is possible to be certain of our loyalty to them.
We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.
Over and over in the Bible, it is fear that threatens to keep people from trusting and obeying God.
The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.
Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.
Without credible communication, and a lot of it, the hearts and minds of others are never captured.
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
Little hearts, little souls give little lusts big power. Big hearts give little lusts little power.
Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.
There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.
Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.
And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.
Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.
We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.
The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.
When governments legalize and encourage gambling, they are creating addictions among their citizens
We're promoting such a narrow version of literacy that we're not including what a lot of boys like.
Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.
There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.
Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.