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For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
Genius awaits him who listens. The messages of genius are for the Soul of man. The senses of man comprehend them not.
Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.
good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.
The first job of a leader is to define a vision for the organization...the capacity to translate vision into reality.
The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.
Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'
I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.
Every morning, in your first view of the day, you have the choice to say, 'Good morning, God' or 'Good God, morning.'
My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.
Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.
I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.
Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
To the optimist, obstacles aare challenges, roadblocks are inspirations, and problems are invitations to achievement.
No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.
A woman seldom comes out of a sullen spell until she's sure her husband has suffered as much as she thinks he should.
Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction.
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.
Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to power is to choose to limit oneself - to serve.
A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.
God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton cloth.
Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
Every time passionate people fail, they are convinced that they are simply one step closer to fulfilling their dream.
The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.
For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fifty thousand pounds.
Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
On every level, despite differences in personalities and jobs, every single human being needs recognition and support.
The longer I work in nutrition, the more convinced I become that for the healthy person all foods should be delicious.
It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.
If you never mention the Lord in conversation with each other,isn't that proof that you aren't so concerned about Him?
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.