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You can develop a burning desire to succeed. How? Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don't want.
That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is life seeking fuller expression.
Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
True spiritual life depends not on probing our feelings and thoughts from dawn to dusk but on 'looking off' to the Savior!
Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .
Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!
If you're going to follow your bliss and make a difference in the world, you'll soon learn that you can't follow the herd.
Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.
Your circumstances do not determine what your life will be; they reveal what kinds of images you have chosen up until now.
Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.
Surely, I thought, a few bushes and some dilapidated wood couldn't stop someone's best and brightest blessing! Surely not!
Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.
Happiness does not depend upon a full pocketbook, but upon a mind full of rich thoughts and a heart full of rich emotions.
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
But it is not the job of truth to make us feel good. It is the job of truth to be true, and it is our job to deal with it.
An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life.
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.
It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.
My home office and workshop are on an overlook on the only deep river gorge on the entire length of the Mississippi River.
He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise.
When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.
Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint.
Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
I don’t feel very much like Pooh today," said Pooh. "There there," said Piglet. "I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.
Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers a power which is nothing less than the power of God.
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.
What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.
I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.
The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes.
Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.