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Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.
I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.
It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.
The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
Don’t kiss me,” she said warningly. “I don’t intend to,” he replied, smiling a little. “I don’t have my whip and chair with me.
There isn’t going to be a ‘next lover,’” Grant said automatically, outraged by the idea. “I’m the only man she’s going to have.
Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.
Hardy's either done the wrong thing for the wrong reason . . . " Another big swallow. "Or the wrong thing for the right reason.
You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.
I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.
When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.
Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris
Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.
To get the best coaching outcomes, always have your 1-on-1's on your employee's turf not yours. In your office the truth hides.
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.
"Another relative?" Valek asked. A broad smile stretched Moon Man's lips. "Yes. I am her mother's uncle's wife's third cousin."
Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif
Markets are not static entities that are 'intervened' in (for good or bad) but are outcomes of public and private interactions.
Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Speak from your mind and people will hear you with their mind. Speak from your heart and people will hear you with their heart.
We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.
If we had the government we deserved we would have the most righteous government, because we deserve the best - everybody does.
There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.
As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.
I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.
Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.
The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.
Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.
Worthiness is a process, and perfection is an eternal trek. We can be worthy to enjoy certain privileges without being perfect.
Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind; nor can the material senses bear reliable testimony on the subject of health.