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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.
Develop inspirational dissatisfaction. Rearrange your attitudes and convert a failure of one day into success on another.
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
First and foremost, effective leaders must continuously strive to make themselves smarter and better at making judgments.
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.
Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
Especially for NRA members, it was obvious from the get-go that Obama believes he is above any constitutional restraints.
Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
I love and celebrate good teachers, and it's critical that we do more to identify them and keep them happy and motivated.
Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.
People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.
Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.
A peculiarity of capital is that it cannot be employed productively without benefiting the community in which it is used.
Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression. I thank God it always passed.
There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.
Every door opens to something and it is better to go toward that something than to sit staring at the blank wall of time.
Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the doorway trying to get out.
When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction.
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.
God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.
This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is.
Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience.
But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.
The secret of every discord in Christian homes and communities and churches is that we seek our own way and our own glory.
As the old saying went, the Manhattan Project wasn't built in a day. Or was that Rome? Something to do with Earth, anyway.
For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.
But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.
In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.
The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions.
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.
Many traders ride an emotional roller coaster and miss the essential element of winning: the management of their emotions.