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As you meditate, you will discover, pleasantly, that you too can see beyond this life, that you can see your eternality.
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.
But I wondered if all this kissing was a bad habit with him and me. The thing we did with our mouths instead of talking.
My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
Everyone needs a spiritual guide: a minister, rabbi, counselor, wise friend, or therapist. My own wise friend is my dog.
A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter
I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.
We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
The intellect is no longer the chairman of the board - it is an employee. It becomes a tool in the service of the heart.
A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
No one could ever truly be free as long as they loved, and life wasn't worth living without love. So freedom? Overrated.
Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother
Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.
Title IX, whether voluntarily or via court cases, opened gymnasiums to women, produced uniforms and schedules and buses.
There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer.
No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.
Love is the real nuclear bomb that destroys all our enemies, because when we love all living beings, we have no enemies.
Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.
Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.
Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.
The world could bring you poison in a jewelled cup, or surprising gifts. Sometimes you didn't know which of them it was.
Revolutionary products don't fail because they are shipped too early. They fail because they aren't revised fast enough.
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
A company should search for every instance of the use of its name and zoom in when there are issues - both good and bad.
If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.
Anything you want for your life, if someone else has done, become, or achieved it, use that as evidence that so can you.
The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality.
Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us.
The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.
Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.
My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges.
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free.
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.
If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.
To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.
Your calling is to bless lives. . . . Just the way you smile or the way you offer to help someone can build their faith.
Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.
Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.
Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.