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... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.
The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.
The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.
Start taking your SELF to the next level so you can take your SUCCESS to the next level. It only happens in that order.
Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
True teaching cannot be learned from text-books any more than a surgeon can acquire his skill by reading about surgery.
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of “communityship.
We measure success by accumulation. The measure is false. The true measure is appreciation. He who loves most has most.
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does.
I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.
If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?
Optimism is when you're not sure where life is going to take you, so naturally you anticipate the best possible outcome
Often, to be free means the ability to deal with the realities of one's own situation so as not to be overcome by them.
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?
He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.
When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.
The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
To take another breath, we must first exhale. When we have breathed out and emptied our lungs, we can breathe in again.
Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.
What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.
Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.
They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.
Truth is for tailors and shoemakers. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades.
Faith never knows where it is being led, or it would not be faith. True faith is content to travel under sealed orders.
Jesus was the meeting place of eternity and time, the blending of deity and humanity, the junction of heaven and earth.
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
There is beauty to be found in the changing of the earth’s seasons, and an inner grace in honouring the cycles of life.
Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.