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Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement.
The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.
A sword in hand is a sure sign of a violent mind; but one does not become non-violent merely by throwing the sword away.
No one writes as slowly as I do, I'm convinced. It's so hard for me. I learn slowly; I make decisions at a snail's pace.
Positive reinforcement changes behavior for the better, while criticism stabilizes negative behaviors and blocks change.
If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.
People who are lazy, careless, doubtful-minded or arrogant need not expect God to reveal His secret or covenant to them.
Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.
Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.
Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
On your daily journeys, listen to those inner signals that help you make the right choices no matter what anyone thinks.
You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
Every moment is an eternity in itself. Bliss is the present moment and each and everyone of us needs to understand this.
It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference between the words motivate and inspire.
Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.
Holder's Justice Department is not the shield of justice, it has become the shield for Obama's political transgressions.
The secret of being more vitally alive is to be more aware. Starting today, from this moment, become aware of awareness!
Whenever I produce my best work, it's always because I've spent time being idle. Something always emerges after nothing.
I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.
On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
Most of us are now free to walk away from our marital commitments more easily than from any other contract in our lives.
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.
Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.
It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
Use "entropy" and you can never lose a debate, von Neumann told Shannon - because no one really knows what "entropy" is.
To communicate, put your words in order; give them a purpose; use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce.
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?
Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
I think it would be great if more adults were able to maintain that joyful creativity that we all experience as children.
No one can escape stress, but you can learn to cope with it. Practice positive thinking. . . seize control in small ways.
The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.
God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. He has already lived all our tomorrows as He has lived all our yesterdays.
God is raising up His heroes and the time will come when they will appear and the world will wonder where they came from.
No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!
Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
What's your brand? If you can't answer that question about your own brand in two or three words, your brand's in trouble.
In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.
A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
I go to bed at 2 a.m. and get up at 7 a.m. - I've never been a sleeper. But I definitely get sick every month-and-a-half.