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Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.
No matter how tired or stressed you are, just by getting dressed and rolling your sleeves up, you can accomplish almost anything.
His tenderness in the springing grass, His beauty in the flowers, His living love in the sun above- All here, and near, and ours!
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.
You hear about those stories where a person is married to someone and they have another family - that's pretty much unforgivable!
Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.
The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.
You can usually tell when a couple becomes centered on each other because they are forever breaking up and getting back together.
Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it.
Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.
Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.
Perhaps there is no more dangerous place for a Christian to be than in safety and comfort, detached from the suffering of others.
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.
The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.
Parents do not have the courage to say no to certain things that their children demand. They are rather scared of their children.
...love is essentially a much simpler phenomenon--it becomes complicated, corrupted or obstructed by an unequal balance of power.
The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.
If we inspire people, they will give us more than we asked for. If we manipulate them, they will give us exactly what we paid for
The true value of networking doesn't come from how many people we can meet but rather how many people we can introduce to others.
Indeed, nobody is close to developing a general formula that predicts the number flips required for any given number of pancakes.
You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back.
Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.
Let each man take the path according to his capacity, understanding and temperament. His true guru will meet him along that path.
I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.
I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.
Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.
Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.
Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.
I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.
When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.
And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.
The move towards the extension of personhood to children is already underway, and is utterly, completely and totally unstoppable!
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Compliance does not foster innovation, trust does. You can't sustain long-term innovation, for example, in a climate of distrust.
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.
When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.
Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.
...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
Archaeologists have made discoveries that challenge fundamental traditions of Judaism as well as those of Christianity and Islam.
Congress, it turns out, is filled with Republicans and Democrats eager to act as enablers for the most repressive forces in Iran.
A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude.
Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.