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If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
In the corporate community the key word is respect. In the corporate community you don't get a relationship until they respect you first.
I remember as a seventeen-year-old kid saying, "If attitude made me captain of this team, I'm going to have a good attitude all my life."
I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.
As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.
Just like sunshine affects others, when the life of Jesus invades your life, you become a loving person. The effect on others is amazing.
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.
I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.
Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou
What's that?" "The laundry basket?" "No, next to it." "I don't see anything next to it." "It's my last shred of dignity. It's very small.
But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.
Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.
Wisdom comes from experience, but experience is not enough. Experience anticipated and experience revisited is the true source of wisdom.
You can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands.
Ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know.
I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.
A man is free in proportion to the measure of his virtues, and the extent to which he is free determines what his virtues can accomplish.
All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.
I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.
Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail.
Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated.
I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.
There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.
We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on a garbage heap.
If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?
There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.
Being an editor doesn't make you a better writer - or vice versa. The worst thing any editor can do is be in competition with his writer.
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love you I want to tell you that I love I love I love I love but you do not.
As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.
Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
I heard a wise saying once that has helped me: "Negative feelings are like stray cats. The more you feed them, the more they hang around.
The U.S. started with no stars. In fact, it started with a completely different flag. The last two were added in 1959, Hawaii and Alaska.
We're looking at a much worse [Hurricane] risk than people were thinking about a year ago ...some places are going to become uninsurable.
Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.
I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.
If philosophy is to be a valuable part of life, we have to appreciate it for its own sake, and not just for what it's done for us lately.
I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.
You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.
Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.
Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.
The illusions it had woven for me had taken place only in my head. The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hard ones are.
You must remind yourself: The #1 reason to merge your life with a man is that he makes you feel happier - not more anxious and depressed.
If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!