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Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives.
I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all.
Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.
When the door opens, I realize that the only thing worse than waiting is the moment you realize a decision has been made.
It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.
You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.
Are you a hoarder of more negative thoughts or positive ones? Whichever ones you hoard, grow into trees and then forests.
Some people want everything to be perfect before they're willing to commit... But commitment always precedes achievement.
With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.
Leaders who practice the Law of Victory believe that anything less than success is unacceptable. And they have no Plan B.
Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one.
Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.
We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.
At least for tonight. In sickness and in health. In good times and in bad. For richer, for poorer. 'Till dawn do us part.
You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.
Because it's kind of great, being an idea that everybody likes. But I could never be the idea to myself, not all the way.
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.
Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
The practical importance of the preservation of our forests is augmented by their relations to climate, soil and streams.
The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.
Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.
All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT!
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
There's no better way to mess up a good cowdog than to let him discover that goofing off beats the heck out of hard work.
Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.
I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.
The cross is not just a badge to identify us...it is also the compass which gives us our bearings in a disoriented world.
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.
Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.
God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.
Who owns your time owns your mind. Change your time and you change your mind. Change your mind and you change your world.
I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
The law of your mind is the law of belief. This means to believe in the way your mind works, to believe in belief itself.
Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.